Kanazawa

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Kanazawa is #L11J8-9L867. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.75 m east to west, centred on 36°35'59.99"N, 136°37'00.04"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 Kanazawa, near its centre.

Code

#L11J8-9L867

With a check character

#L11J8-9L867*1

Short form

9L867

Cell centre

36.599996, 136.616678

Cell size

2.56 m by 2.75 m

Region

Ishikawa

Country

Japan

Population

466,029

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #L11J8-9L867. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Ishikawa

Kanazawa 9L867: 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 4.3 km east or west of Kanazawa. 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

#L11J8-9L867*1. 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 42.9 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. JL11JMetropolitan area40 km by 42.9 km
2. 8L11J8District8 km by 8.58 km
3. 9L11J89Suburb1.6 km by 1.72 km
4. LL11J89LA few streets320 m by 343 m
5. 8L11J89L8Building64 m by 68.6 m
6. 6L11J89L86Entrance12.8 m by 13.7 m
7. 7L11J89L867Doorway2.56 m by 2.75 m

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