Grid Point Code

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Nagano

Japan

With a code
#L127P-20MG5
Said aloud
Nagano 20MG5

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Nagano is #L127P-20MG5. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.74 m east to west, centred on 36°38'59.97"N, 138°11'00.01"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 Nagano, near its centre.

Code
#L127P-20MG5
With a check character
#L127P-20MG5*9
Short form
20MG5
Cell centre
36.649993, 138.183337
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.74 m
Country
Japan
Population
372,760

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #L127P-20MG5. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Japan

Nagano 20MG5: 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 Nagano. 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

#L127P-20MG5*9. 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. L127Metropolitan area40 km by 42.9 km
  2. L127PDistrict8 km by 8.57 km
  3. L127P2Suburb1.6 km by 1.71 km
  4. L127P20A few streets320 m by 343 m
  5. L127P20MBuilding64 m by 68.6 m
  6. L127P20MGEntrance12.8 m by 13.7 m
  7. L127P20MG5Doorway2.56 m by 2.74 m

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