Chichen Itza
near Chichén-ItzáYucatánMexico
- With a code
#GFKHF-75MWF- Said aloud
- Chichen Itza
75MWF
What the code says
The Grid Point Code for Chichen Itza is #GFKHF-75MWF. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.20 m east to west, centred on 20°40'59.04"N, 88°34'06.97"W, 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
- Pre-Columbian Maya city in Mexico
- Code
#GFKHF-75MWF- With a check character
#GFKHF-75MWF*D- Short form
75MWF- Cell centre
- 20.683066, -88.568602
- Cell size
- 2.56 m by 3.20 m
- Region
- Yucatán
- Country
- Mexico
How to give this address
- On a sign, a form or a delivery note
The whole code,
#GFKHF-75MWF. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.- Said aloud, in Yucatán
Chichen Itza 75MWF: 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 5.0 km east or west of Chichen Itza. 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
#GFKHF-75MWF*D. 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 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.
- GFKHMetropolitan area40 km by 50 km
- GFKHFDistrict8 km by 10 km
- GFKHF7Suburb1.6 km by 2 km
- GFKHF75A few streets320 m by 400 m
- GFKHF75MBuilding64 m by 80 m
- GFKHF75MWEntrance12.8 m by 16 m
- GFKHF75MWFDoorway2.56 m by 3.2 m
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Place and region from Wikidata, described on Wikipedia; nearby town from GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0.