Gorongosa National Park

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Gorongosa National Park is #8F0GP-80W0K. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.24 m east to west, centred on 18°45'57.60"S, 34°29'59.96"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

National park in Mozambique

Code

#8F0GP-80W0K

With a check character

#8F0GP-80W0K*4

Short form

80W0K

Cell centre

-18.765999, 34.499988

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.24 m

Region

Sofala

Country

Mozambique

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #8F0GP-80W0K. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Sofala

Gorongosa National Park 80W0K: 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 5.1 km east or west of Gorongosa National Park. 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

#8F0GP-80W0K*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 50.6 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. G8F0GMetropolitan area40 km by 50.6 km
2. P8F0GPDistrict8 km by 10.1 km
3. 88F0GP8Suburb1.6 km by 2.02 km
4. 08F0GP80A few streets320 m by 405 m
5. W8F0GP80WBuilding64 m by 80.9 m
6. 08F0GP80W0Entrance12.8 m by 16.2 m
7. K8F0GP80W0KDoorway2.56 m by 3.24 m

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