Curonian Spit

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Curonian Spit is #PK36D-LGHDP. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 1.95 m east to west, centred on 55°16'28.01"N, 20°58'15.02"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

Dune spit in Lithuania and Russia

Code

#PK36D-LGHDP

With a check character

#PK36D-LGHDP*4

Short form

LGHDP

Cell centre

55.274446, 20.970839

Cell size

2.56 m by 1.95 m

Region

Klaipėda County

Country

Lithuania

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PK36D-LGHDP. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Klaipėda County

Curonian Spit LGHDP: 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 3.0 km east or west of Curonian Spit. 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

#PK36D-LGHDP*4. 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 30.4 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. 6PK36Metropolitan area40 km by 30.4 km
2. DPK36DDistrict8 km by 6.09 km
3. LPK36DLSuburb1.6 km by 1.22 km
4. GPK36DLGA few streets320 m by 244 m
5. HPK36DLGHBuilding64 m by 48.7 m
6. DPK36DLGHDEntrance12.8 m by 9.74 m
7. PPK36DLGHDPDoorway2.56 m by 1.95 m

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