Sørvágsvatn

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Sørvágsvatn is #R9RHJ-WR17C. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 1.60 m east to west, centred on 62°03'00.01"N, 7°14'00.05"W, 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

Largest lake in the Faroe Islands

Code

#R9RHJ-WR17C

With a check character

#R9RHJ-WR17C*8

Short form

WR17C

Cell centre

62.050003, -7.233347

Cell size

2.56 m by 1.60 m

Region

Vágar

Country

Faroe Islands

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #R9RHJ-WR17C. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Vágar

Sørvágsvatn WR17C: 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 2.5 km east or west of Sørvágsvatn. 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

#R9RHJ-WR17C*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 25 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. HR9RHMetropolitan area40 km by 25 km
2. JR9RHJDistrict8 km by 5.01 km
3. WR9RHJWSuburb1.6 km by 1 km
4. RR9RHJWRA few streets320 m by 200 m
5. 1R9RHJWR1Building64 m by 40.1 m
6. 7R9RHJWR17Entrance12.8 m by 8.01 m
7. CR9RHJWR17CDoorway2.56 m by 1.6 m

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