Maletsunyane Falls

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Maletsunyane Falls is #8L8DT-1948P. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.97 m east to west, centred on 29°52'06.99"S, 28°03'06.03"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is

Waterfall on the Maletsunyane River in Lesotho

Code

#8L8DT-1948P

With a check character

#8L8DT-1948P*M

Short form

1948P

Cell centre

-29.868607, 28.051676

Cell size

2.56 m by 2.97 m

Region

Maseru District

Country

Lesotho

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #8L8DT-1948P. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Maseru District

Maletsunyane Falls 1948P: 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 4.6 km east or west of Maletsunyane Falls. 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

#8L8DT-1948P*M. 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 46.3 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. D8L8DMetropolitan area40 km by 46.3 km
2. T8L8DTDistrict8 km by 9.27 km
3. 18L8DT1Suburb1.6 km by 1.85 km
4. 98L8DT19A few streets320 m by 371 m
5. 48L8DT194Building64 m by 74.1 m
6. 88L8DT1948Entrance12.8 m by 14.8 m
7. P8L8DT1948PDoorway2.56 m by 2.97 m

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