Nuuk

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Nuuk is #RH17M-DP484. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 1.49 m east to west, centred on 64°11'00.46"N, 51°43'17.61"W, 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 Nuuk, near its centre, and Nuuk is the capital of Greenland.

Code

#RH17M-DP484

With a check character

#RH17M-DP484*T

Short form

DP484

Cell centre

64.183461, -51.721559

Cell size

2.56 m by 1.49 m

Region

Sermersooq

Country

Greenland

Population

14,798

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #RH17M-DP484. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Sermersooq

Nuuk DP484: 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 2.3 km east or west of Nuuk. 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

#RH17M-DP484*T. 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 23.3 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. 7RH17Metropolitan area40 km by 23.3 km
2. MRH17MDistrict8 km by 4.65 km
3. DRH17MDSuburb1.6 km by 931 m
4. PRH17MDPA few streets320 m by 186 m
5. 4RH17MDP4Building64 m by 37.2 m
6. 8RH17MDP48Entrance12.8 m by 7.45 m
7. 4RH17MDP484Doorway2.56 m by 1.49 m

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