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Miyazaki

Japan

Grid Point Code for Miyazaki
With a code
#L9C8K-5DX2G
Said aloud
Miyazaki 5DX2G

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Miyazaki is #L9C8K-5DX2G. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.90 m east to west, centred on 31°55'00.04"N, 131°25'00.02"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 Miyazaki, near its centre.

Code
#L9C8K-5DX2G
With a check character
#L9C8K-5DX2G*W
Short form
5DX2G
Cell centre
31.916678, 131.416673
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.90 m
Country
Japan
Population
401,339

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #L9C8K-5DX2G. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Japan

Miyazaki 5DX2G: 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 Miyazaki. 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

#L9C8K-5DX2G*W. 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 45.4 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. L9C8Metropolitan area40 km by 45.4 km
  2. L9C8KDistrict8 km by 9.07 km
  3. L9C8K5Suburb1.6 km by 1.81 km
  4. L9C8K5DA few streets320 m by 363 m
  5. L9C8K5DXBuilding64 m by 72.6 m
  6. L9C8K5DX2Entrance12.8 m by 14.5 m
  7. L9C8K5DX2GDoorway2.56 m by 2.9 m

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