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Tijuana

Baja CaliforniaMexico

Grid Point Code for Tijuana
With a code
#G961M-DP87C
Said aloud
Tijuana DP87C

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Tijuana is #G961M-DP87C. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.88 m east to west, centred on 32°30'09.72"N, 117°00'13.35"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 Tijuana, near its centre.

Code
#G961M-DP87C
With a check character
#G961M-DP87C*7
Short form
DP87C
Cell centre
32.502701, -117.003709
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.88 m
Region
Baja California
Country
Mexico
Population
1,922,523

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #G961M-DP87C. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Baja California

Tijuana DP87C: 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 4.5 km east or west of Tijuana. 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

#G961M-DP87C*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 45.1 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. G961Metropolitan area40 km by 45.1 km
  2. G961MDistrict8 km by 9.01 km
  3. G961MDSuburb1.6 km by 1.8 km
  4. G961MDPA few streets320 m by 361 m
  5. G961MDP8Building64 m by 72.1 m
  6. G961MDP87Entrance12.8 m by 14.4 m
  7. G961MDP87CDoorway2.56 m by 2.88 m

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