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Kota

RajasthanIndia

Grid Point Code for Kota
With a code
#KD8TP-JNW6C
Said aloud
Kota JNW6C

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Kota is #KD8TP-JNW6C. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.09 m east to west, centred on 25°10'57.17"N, 75°50'20.63"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 Kota, near its centre.

Code
#KD8TP-JNW6C
With a check character
#KD8TP-JNW6C*G
Short form
JNW6C
Cell centre
25.182547, 75.839063
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.09 m
Region
Rajasthan
Country
India
Population
1,001,694

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KD8TP-JNW6C. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Rajasthan

Kota JNW6C: 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 4.8 km east or west of Kota. 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

#KD8TP-JNW6C*G. 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 48.4 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. KD8TMetropolitan area40 km by 48.4 km
  2. KD8TPDistrict8 km by 9.67 km
  3. KD8TPJSuburb1.6 km by 1.93 km
  4. KD8TPJNA few streets320 m by 387 m
  5. KD8TPJNWBuilding64 m by 77.4 m
  6. KD8TPJNW6Entrance12.8 m by 15.5 m
  7. KD8TPJNW6CDoorway2.56 m by 3.09 m

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