Grid Point Code

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Cuttack

OdishaIndia

With a code
#KF984-70WCN
Said aloud
Cuttack 70WCN

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Cuttack is #KF984-70WCN. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.20 m east to west, centred on 20°27'53.89"N, 85°52'45.41"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 Cuttack, near its centre.

Code
#KF984-70WCN
With a check character
#KF984-70WCN*5
Short form
70WCN
Cell centre
20.464969, 85.879281
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.20 m
Region
Odisha
Country
India
Population
610,189

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KF984-70WCN. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Odisha

Cuttack 70WCN: 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 5.0 km east or west of Cuttack. 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

#KF984-70WCN*5. 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 50.1 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. KF98Metropolitan area40 km by 50.1 km
  2. KF984District8 km by 10 km
  3. KF9847Suburb1.6 km by 2 km
  4. KF98470A few streets320 m by 400 m
  5. KF98470WBuilding64 m by 80.1 m
  6. KF98470WCEntrance12.8 m by 16 m
  7. KF98470WCNDoorway2.56 m by 3.2 m

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