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Utsunomiya

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Grid Point Code for Utsunomiya
With a code
#L13MF-P7NWW
Said aloud
Utsunomiya P7NWW

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Utsunomiya is #L13MF-P7NWW. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.75 m east to west, centred on 36°34'00.05"N, 139°52'59.95"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 Utsunomiya, near its centre.

Code
#L13MF-P7NWW
With a check character
#L13MF-P7NWW*X
Short form
P7NWW
Cell centre
36.566680, 139.883320
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.75 m
Region
Tochigi
Country
Japan
Population
518,757

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #L13MF-P7NWW. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Tochigi

Utsunomiya P7NWW: 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 Utsunomiya. 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

#L13MF-P7NWW*X. 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. L13MMetropolitan area40 km by 42.9 km
  2. L13MFDistrict8 km by 8.58 km
  3. L13MFPSuburb1.6 km by 1.72 km
  4. L13MFP7A few streets320 m by 343 m
  5. L13MFP7NBuilding64 m by 68.7 m
  6. L13MFP7NWEntrance12.8 m by 13.7 m
  7. L13MFP7NWWDoorway2.56 m by 2.75 m

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