Bastei

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Bastei is #PWJ5G-T6550. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.15 m east to west, centred on 50°57'59.97"N, 14°04'00.02"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

Rock formation in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains

Code

#PWJ5G-T6550

With a check character

#PWJ5G-T6550*G

Short form

T6550

Cell centre

50.966657, 14.066673

Cell size

2.56 m by 2.15 m

Region

Saxony

Country

Germany

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PWJ5G-T6550. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Saxony

Bastei T6550: 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 3.4 km east or west of Bastei. 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

#PWJ5G-T6550*G. 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 33.7 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. 5PWJ5Metropolitan area40 km by 33.7 km
2. GPWJ5GDistrict8 km by 6.73 km
3. TPWJ5GTSuburb1.6 km by 1.35 km
4. 6PWJ5GT6A few streets320 m by 269 m
5. 5PWJ5GT65Building64 m by 53.8 m
6. 5PWJ5GT655Entrance12.8 m by 10.8 m
7. 0PWJ5GT6550Doorway2.56 m by 2.15 m

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