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Zugspitze

near Garmisch-PartenkirchenBavariaGermany

Grid Point Code for Zugspitze
With a code
#PXNL9-L35CF
Said aloud
Zugspitze L35CF

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Zugspitze is #PXNL9-L35CF. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.31 m east to west, centred on 47°25'16.38"N, 10°59'10.74"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
Highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains (Eastern Alps)
Code
#PXNL9-L35CF
With a check character
#PXNL9-L35CF*K
Short form
L35CF
Cell centre
47.421216, 10.986317
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.31 m
Region
Bavaria
Country
Germany

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PXNL9-L35CF. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Bavaria

Zugspitze L35CF: 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 3.6 km east or west of Zugspitze. 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

#PXNL9-L35CF*K. 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 36.2 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. PXNLMetropolitan area40 km by 36.2 km
  2. PXNL9District8 km by 7.23 km
  3. PXNL9LSuburb1.6 km by 1.45 km
  4. PXNL9L3A few streets320 m by 289 m
  5. PXNL9L35Building64 m by 57.8 m
  6. PXNL9L35CEntrance12.8 m by 11.6 m
  7. PXNL9L35CFDoorway2.56 m by 2.31 m

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