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Dresden

SaxonyGermany

Grid Point Code for Dresden
With a code
#PWJ61-071TX
Said aloud
Dresden 071TX

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Dresden is #PWJ61-071TX. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.15 m east to west, centred on 51°03'03.21"N, 13°44'17.91"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 Dresden, near its centre.

Code
#PWJ61-071TX
With a check character
#PWJ61-071TX*P
Short form
071TX
Cell centre
51.050892, 13.738307
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.15 m
Region
Saxony
Country
Germany
Population
564,904

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PWJ61-071TX. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Saxony

Dresden 071TX: 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 Dresden. 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

#PWJ61-071TX*P. 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 33.6 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. PWJ6Metropolitan area40 km by 33.6 km
  2. PWJ61District8 km by 6.72 km
  3. PWJ610Suburb1.6 km by 1.34 km
  4. PWJ6107A few streets320 m by 269 m
  5. PWJ61071Building64 m by 53.7 m
  6. PWJ61071TEntrance12.8 m by 10.7 m
  7. PWJ61071TXDoorway2.56 m by 2.15 m

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