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Lake Skadar

near BarPodgoricaMontenegro

Grid Point Code for Lake Skadar
With a code
#J1KHW-P6KHW
Said aloud
Lake Skadar P6KHW

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Lake Skadar is #J1KHW-P6KHW. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.53 m east to west, centred on 42°10'53.00"N, 19°18'32.44"E, 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
Lake on the border of Albania and Montenegro
Code
#J1KHW-P6KHW
With a check character
#J1KHW-P6KHW*J
Short form
P6KHW
Cell centre
42.181390, 19.309010
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.53 m
Region
Podgorica
Country
Montenegro

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #J1KHW-P6KHW. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Podgorica

Lake Skadar P6KHW: 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 4.0 km east or west of Lake Skadar. 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

#J1KHW-P6KHW*J. 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 39.6 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. J1KHMetropolitan area40 km by 39.6 km
  2. J1KHWDistrict8 km by 7.92 km
  3. J1KHWPSuburb1.6 km by 1.58 km
  4. J1KHWP6A few streets320 m by 317 m
  5. J1KHWP6KBuilding64 m by 63.4 m
  6. J1KHWP6KHEntrance12.8 m by 12.7 m
  7. J1KHWP6KHWDoorway2.56 m by 2.53 m

More in Montenegro

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