Benghazi

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Benghazi is #J8D39-01044. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.90 m east to west, centred on 32°06'53.52"N, 20°04'06.93"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 Benghazi, near its centre.

Code

#J8D39-01044

With a check character

#J8D39-01044*8

Short form

01044

Cell centre

32.114868, 20.068593

Cell size

2.56 m by 2.90 m

Region

Banghazi

Country

Libya

Population

757,490

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #J8D39-01044. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Banghazi

Benghazi 01044: 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 Benghazi. 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

#J8D39-01044*8. 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 45.3 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. 3J8D3Metropolitan area40 km by 45.3 km
2. 9J8D39District8 km by 9.05 km
3. 0J8D390Suburb1.6 km by 1.81 km
4. 1J8D3901A few streets320 m by 362 m
5. 0J8D39010Building64 m by 72.4 m
6. 4J8D390104Entrance12.8 m by 14.5 m
7. 4J8D3901044Doorway2.56 m by 2.9 m

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