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Jog Falls

near KargalKarnatakaIndia

Grid Point Code for Jog Falls
With a code
#K8GXC-MT22K
Said aloud
Jog Falls MT22K

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Jog Falls is #K8GXC-MT22K. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.31 m east to west, centred on 14°13'48.00"N, 74°48'45.97"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
Second largest plunge falls located in Karnataka
Code
#K8GXC-MT22K
With a check character
#K8GXC-MT22K*F
Short form
MT22K
Cell centre
14.229999, 74.812769
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.31 m
Region
Karnataka
Country
India

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K8GXC-MT22K. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Karnataka

Jog Falls MT22K: 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 5.2 km east or west of Jog Falls. 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

#K8GXC-MT22K*F. 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 51.8 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. K8GXMetropolitan area40 km by 51.8 km
  2. K8GXCDistrict8 km by 10.4 km
  3. K8GXCMSuburb1.6 km by 2.07 km
  4. K8GXCMTA few streets320 m by 414 m
  5. K8GXCMT2Building64 m by 82.9 m
  6. K8GXCMT22Entrance12.8 m by 16.6 m
  7. K8GXCMT22KDoorway2.56 m by 3.31 m

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