Grid Point Code

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Kumamoto

Japan

With a code
#L99LW-MP3MN
Said aloud
Kumamoto MP3MN

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Kumamoto is #L99LW-MP3MN. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.87 m east to west, centred on 32°48'21.18"N, 130°41'30.49"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 Kumamoto, near its centre.

Code
#L99LW-MP3MN
With a check character
#L99LW-MP3MN*5
Short form
MP3MN
Cell centre
32.805884, 130.691804
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.87 m
Country
Japan
Population
738,907

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #L99LW-MP3MN. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Japan

Kumamoto MP3MN: 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 4.5 km east or west of Kumamoto. 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

#L99LW-MP3MN*5. 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 44.9 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. L99LMetropolitan area40 km by 44.9 km
  2. L99LWDistrict8 km by 8.98 km
  3. L99LWMSuburb1.6 km by 1.8 km
  4. L99LWMPA few streets320 m by 359 m
  5. L99LWMP3Building64 m by 71.9 m
  6. L99LWMP3MEntrance12.8 m by 14.4 m
  7. L99LWMP3MNDoorway2.56 m by 2.87 m

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