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Strasbourg

Grand EstFrance

Grid Point Code for Strasbourg
With a code
#PXMR0-K2HWD
Said aloud
Strasbourg K2HWD

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Strasbourg is #PXMR0-K2HWD. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.26 m east to west, centred on 48°35'02.15"N, 7°44'43.95"E, 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 Strasbourg, near its centre.

Code
#PXMR0-K2HWD
With a check character
#PXMR0-K2HWD*M
Short form
K2HWD
Cell centre
48.583930, 7.745541
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.26 m
Region
Grand Est
Country
France
Population
274,845

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PXMR0-K2HWD. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Grand Est

Strasbourg K2HWD: 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 3.5 km east or west of Strasbourg. 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

#PXMR0-K2HWD*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 35.3 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. PXMRMetropolitan area40 km by 35.3 km
  2. PXMR0District8 km by 7.07 km
  3. PXMR0KSuburb1.6 km by 1.41 km
  4. PXMR0K2A few streets320 m by 283 m
  5. PXMR0K2HBuilding64 m by 56.6 m
  6. PXMR0K2HWEntrance12.8 m by 11.3 m
  7. PXMR0K2HWDDoorway2.56 m by 2.26 m

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