Sigatoka Sand Dunes

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Sigatoka Sand Dunes is #6C1PD-J3438. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.25 m east to west, centred on 18°10'12.00"S, 177°29'20.04"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

Dunes in Fiji

Code

#6C1PD-J3438

With a check character

#6C1PD-J3438*M

Short form

J3438

Cell centre

-18.170001, 177.488901

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.25 m

Region

Western Division

Country

Fiji

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #6C1PD-J3438. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Western Division

Sigatoka Sand Dunes J3438: 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 5.1 km east or west of Sigatoka Sand Dunes. 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

#6C1PD-J3438*M. 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 50.8 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. P6C1PMetropolitan area40 km by 50.8 km
2. D6C1PDDistrict8 km by 10.2 km
3. J6C1PDJSuburb1.6 km by 2.03 km
4. 36C1PDJ3A few streets320 m by 406 m
5. 46C1PDJ34Building64 m by 81.2 m
6. 36C1PDJ343Entrance12.8 m by 16.2 m
7. 86C1PDJ3438Doorway2.56 m by 3.25 m

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