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Teotihuacan

near San Martín de las PirámidesState of MexicoMexico

Grid Point Code for Teotihuacan
With a code
#GD349-DH7J0
Said aloud
Teotihuacan DH7J0

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Teotihuacan is #GD349-DH7J0. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.22 m east to west, centred on 19°41'33.03"N, 98°50'38.00"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
Ancient Mesoamerican city
Code
#GD349-DH7J0
With a check character
#GD349-DH7J0*X
Short form
DH7J0
Cell centre
19.692507, -98.843889
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.22 m
Region
State of Mexico
Country
Mexico

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #GD349-DH7J0. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in State of Mexico

Teotihuacan DH7J0: 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 Teotihuacan. 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

#GD349-DH7J0*X. 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 50.3 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. GD34Metropolitan area40 km by 50.3 km
  2. GD349District8 km by 10.1 km
  3. GD349DSuburb1.6 km by 2.01 km
  4. GD349DHA few streets320 m by 402 m
  5. GD349DH7Building64 m by 80.5 m
  6. GD349DH7JEntrance12.8 m by 16.1 m
  7. GD349DH7J0Doorway2.56 m by 3.22 m

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Place and region from Wikidata, described on Wikipedia; nearby town from GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0.