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Mount Otemanu

near VaitoareLeeward IslandsFrench Polynesia

Grid Point Code for Mount Otemanu
With a code
#DL134-T10T3
Said aloud
Mount Otemanu T10T3

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Mount Otemanu is #DL134-T10T3. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.28 m east to west, centred on 16°29'59.97"S, 151°44'00.04"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
Mountain on Bora Bora
Code
#DL134-T10T3
With a check character
#DL134-T10T3*8
Short form
T10T3
Cell centre
-16.499992, -151.733345
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.28 m
Region
Leeward Islands
Country
French Polynesia

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #DL134-T10T3. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Leeward Islands

Mount Otemanu T10T3: 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 Mount Otemanu. 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

#DL134-T10T3*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 51.2 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. DL13Metropolitan area40 km by 51.2 km
  2. DL134District8 km by 10.2 km
  3. DL134TSuburb1.6 km by 2.05 km
  4. DL134T1A few streets320 m by 410 m
  5. DL134T10Building64 m by 82 m
  6. DL134T10TEntrance12.8 m by 16.4 m
  7. DL134T10T3Doorway2.56 m by 3.28 m

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