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Ciudad Victoria

TamaulipasMexico

With a code
#GDKRT-M68ML
Said aloud
Ciudad Victoria M68ML

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Ciudad Victoria is #GDKRT-M68ML. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.13 m east to west, centred on 23°44'26.20"N, 99°08'37.15"W, 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 Ciudad Victoria, near its centre.

Code
#GDKRT-M68ML
With a check character
#GDKRT-M68ML*7
Short form
M68ML
Cell centre
23.740612, -99.143654
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.13 m
Region
Tamaulipas
Country
Mexico
Population
332,100

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #GDKRT-M68ML. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Tamaulipas

Ciudad Victoria M68ML: 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 4.9 km east or west of Ciudad Victoria. 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

#GDKRT-M68ML*7. 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 48.9 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. GDKRMetropolitan area40 km by 48.9 km
  2. GDKRTDistrict8 km by 9.78 km
  3. GDKRTMSuburb1.6 km by 1.96 km
  4. GDKRTM6A few streets320 m by 391 m
  5. GDKRTM68Building64 m by 78.3 m
  6. GDKRTM68MEntrance12.8 m by 15.7 m
  7. GDKRTM68MLDoorway2.56 m by 3.13 m

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