Toamasina

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Toamasina is #8C42C-W9X00. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.25 m east to west, centred on 18°08'57.11"S, 49°24'08.47"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 Toamasina, near its centre.

Code

#8C42C-W9X00

With a check character

#8C42C-W9X00*0

Short form

W9X00

Cell centre

-18.149196, 49.402353

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.25 m

Region

Atsinanana

Country

Madagascar

Population

345,107

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #8C42C-W9X00. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Atsinanana

Toamasina W9X00: 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 5.1 km east or west of Toamasina. 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

#8C42C-W9X00*0. 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 50.8 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. 28C42Metropolitan area40 km by 50.8 km
2. C8C42CDistrict8 km by 10.2 km
3. W8C42CWSuburb1.6 km by 2.03 km
4. 98C42CW9A few streets320 m by 406 m
5. X8C42CW9XBuilding64 m by 81.2 m
6. 08C42CW9X0Entrance12.8 m by 16.2 m
7. 08C42CW9X00Doorway2.56 m by 3.25 m

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