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Guadalajara

JaliscoMexico

Grid Point Code for Guadalajara
With a code
#GD8CD-2R7NW
Said aloud
Guadalajara 2R7NW

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Guadalajara is #GD8CD-2R7NW. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.20 m east to west, centred on 20°40'38.55"N, 103°20'51.01"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 Guadalajara, near its centre.

Code
#GD8CD-2R7NW
With a check character
#GD8CD-2R7NW*4
Short form
2R7NW
Cell centre
20.677375, -103.347502
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.20 m
Region
Jalisco
Country
Mexico
Population
1,385,629

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #GD8CD-2R7NW. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Jalisco

Guadalajara 2R7NW: 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 Guadalajara. 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

#GD8CD-2R7NW*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 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.

  1. GD8CMetropolitan area40 km by 50 km
  2. GD8CDDistrict8 km by 10 km
  3. GD8CD2Suburb1.6 km by 2 km
  4. GD8CD2RA few streets320 m by 400 m
  5. GD8CD2R7Building64 m by 80 m
  6. GD8CD2R7NEntrance12.8 m by 16 m
  7. GD8CD2R7NWDoorway2.56 m by 3.2 m

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