Grid Point Code

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Valley of the Kings

near Aţ ŢārifLuxor GovernorateEgypt

With a code
#JF37C-GCC45
Said aloud
Valley of the Kings GCC45

Open in the playground

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Valley of the Kings is #JF37C-GCC45. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.08 m east to west, centred on 25°44'24.91"N, 32°36'08.47"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is
Necropolis in ancient Egypt
Code
#JF37C-GCC45
With a check character
#JF37C-GCC45*8
Short form
GCC45
Cell centre
25.740253, 32.602353
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.08 m
Region
Luxor Governorate
Country
Egypt

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #JF37C-GCC45. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Luxor Governorate

Valley of the Kings GCC45: 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 4.8 km east or west of Valley of the Kings. 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

#JF37C-GCC45*8. 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 48.1 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. JF37Metropolitan area40 km by 48.1 km
  2. JF37CDistrict8 km by 9.63 km
  3. JF37CGSuburb1.6 km by 1.93 km
  4. JF37CGCA few streets320 m by 385 m
  5. JF37CGCCBuilding64 m by 77 m
  6. JF37CGCC4Entrance12.8 m by 15.4 m
  7. JF37CGCC45Doorway2.56 m by 3.08 m

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