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Lucknow

Uttar PradeshIndia

Grid Point Code for Lucknow
With a code
#KD3WF-JRRR3
Said aloud
Lucknow JRRR3

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Lucknow is #KD3WF-JRRR3. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.05 m east to west, centred on 26°50'21.42"N, 80°55'23.27"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 Lucknow, near its centre.

Code
#KD3WF-JRRR3
With a check character
#KD3WF-JRRR3*P
Short form
JRRR3
Cell centre
26.839284, 80.923131
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.05 m
Region
Uttar Pradesh
Country
India
Population
2,472,011

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KD3WF-JRRR3. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow JRRR3: 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 Lucknow. 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

#KD3WF-JRRR3*P. 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 47.7 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. KD3WMetropolitan area40 km by 47.7 km
  2. KD3WFDistrict8 km by 9.54 km
  3. KD3WFJSuburb1.6 km by 1.91 km
  4. KD3WFJRA few streets320 m by 381 m
  5. KD3WFJRRBuilding64 m by 76.3 m
  6. KD3WFJRRREntrance12.8 m by 15.3 m
  7. KD3WFJRRR3Doorway2.56 m by 3.05 m

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