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Kitakyushu

FukuokaJapan

Grid Point Code for Kitakyushu
With a code
#L992W-0P3CD
Said aloud
Kitakyushu 0P3CD

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Kitakyushu is #L992W-0P3CD. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.84 m east to west, centred on 33°51'06.51"N, 130°51'01.26"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 Kitakyushu, near its centre.

Code
#L992W-0P3CD
With a check character
#L992W-0P3CD*8
Short form
0P3CD
Cell centre
33.851808, 130.850350
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.84 m
Region
Fukuoka
Country
Japan
Population
940,978

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #L992W-0P3CD. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Fukuoka

Kitakyushu 0P3CD: 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 4.4 km east or west of Kitakyushu. 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

#L992W-0P3CD*8. 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 44.4 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. L992Metropolitan area40 km by 44.4 km
  2. L992WDistrict8 km by 8.88 km
  3. L992W0Suburb1.6 km by 1.78 km
  4. L992W0PA few streets320 m by 355 m
  5. L992W0P3Building64 m by 71 m
  6. L992W0P3CEntrance12.8 m by 14.2 m
  7. L992W0P3CDDoorway2.56 m by 2.84 m

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