Grid Point Code

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Santo Domingo de los Colorados

Santo Domingo de los TsáchilasEcuador

With a code
#C1TX5-DMXCT
Said aloud
Santo Domingo de los Colorados DMXCT

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Santo Domingo de los Colorados is #C1TX5-DMXCT. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.42 m east to west, centred on 0°15'13.26"S, 79°10'34.57"W, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

The point used is the one GeoNames records for Santo Domingo de los Colorados, near its centre.

Code
#C1TX5-DMXCT
With a check character
#C1TX5-DMXCT*7
Short form
DMXCT
Cell centre
-0.253682, -79.176269
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.42 m
Region
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas
Country
Ecuador
Population
458,580

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #C1TX5-DMXCT. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas

Santo Domingo de los Colorados DMXCT: a name both people know, then the last five characters. They give back the exact code for anywhere within 4.0 km north or south and 5.3 km east or west of Santo Domingo de los Colorados. Further away the same five name somewhere else, which is why the whole code is what goes on a sign.

Copied by hand, or read over a phone

#C1TX5-DMXCT*7. The character on the end catches any single mistyped symbol and any two neighbours swapped.

As a link or a square code

Open it on the map, move to the exact door, and add directions if the code needs help: "blue gate, second floor". The link and the square code carry them. Nothing is kept on this site.

From the city to the door

The first four characters name a cell about 40 km by 53.4 km here. Each one after that picks one of 25 inside the last, so the whole ten name a spot about the size of a doorway.

  1. C1TXMetropolitan area40 km by 53.4 km
  2. C1TX5District8 km by 10.7 km
  3. C1TX5DSuburb1.6 km by 2.14 km
  4. C1TX5DMA few streets320 m by 427 m
  5. C1TX5DMXBuilding64 m by 85.5 m
  6. C1TX5DMXCEntrance12.8 m by 17.1 m
  7. C1TX5DMXCTDoorway2.56 m by 3.42 m

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