Grid Point Code

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Batam

RiauIndonesia

With a code
#K3WMR-TX4C2
Said aloud
Batam TX4C2

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Batam is #K3WMR-TX4C2. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.42 m east to west, centred on 1°08'57.70"N, 104°01'29.67"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 Batam, near its centre.

Code
#K3WMR-TX4C2
With a check character
#K3WMR-TX4C2*H
Short form
TX4C2
Cell centre
1.149362, 104.024909
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.42 m
Region
Riau
Country
Indonesia
Population
1,296,960

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K3WMR-TX4C2. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Riau

Batam TX4C2: 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 5.3 km east or west of Batam. 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

#K3WMR-TX4C2*H. 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 53.4 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. K3WMMetropolitan area40 km by 53.4 km
  2. K3WMRDistrict8 km by 10.7 km
  3. K3WMRTSuburb1.6 km by 2.14 km
  4. K3WMRTXA few streets320 m by 427 m
  5. K3WMRTX4Building64 m by 85.5 m
  6. K3WMRTX4CEntrance12.8 m by 17.1 m
  7. K3WMRTX4C2Doorway2.56 m by 3.42 m

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