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Visakhapatnam

Andhra PradeshIndia

With a code
#K8013-G747P
Said aloud
Visakhapatnam G747P

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Visakhapatnam is #K8013-G747P. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.26 m east to west, centred on 17°40'48.36"N, 83°12'05.77"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 Visakhapatnam, near its centre.

Code
#K8013-G747P
With a check character
#K8013-G747P*M
Short form
G747P
Cell centre
17.680101, 83.201603
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.26 m
Region
Andhra Pradesh
Country
India
Population
1,063,178

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K8013-G747P. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Andhra Pradesh

Visakhapatnam G747P: 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 5.1 km east or west of Visakhapatnam. 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

#K8013-G747P*M. 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 50.9 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. K801Metropolitan area40 km by 50.9 km
  2. K8013District8 km by 10.2 km
  3. K8013GSuburb1.6 km by 2.04 km
  4. K8013G7A few streets320 m by 407 m
  5. K8013G74Building64 m by 81.5 m
  6. K8013G747Entrance12.8 m by 16.3 m
  7. K8013G747PDoorway2.56 m by 3.26 m

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