Matola

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Matola is #8FRFR-C25JH. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.07 m east to west, centred on 25°57'44.00"S, 32°27'32.00"E, 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 Matola, near its centre.

Code

#8FRFR-C25JH

With a check character

#8FRFR-C25JH*W

Short form

C25JH

Cell centre

-25.962221, 32.458890

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.07 m

Region

Maputo Province

Country

Mozambique

Population

1,198,988

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #8FRFR-C25JH. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Maputo Province

Matola C25JH: 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 4.8 km east or west of Matola. 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

#8FRFR-C25JH*W. 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 48 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. F8FRFMetropolitan area40 km by 48 km
2. R8FRFRDistrict8 km by 9.61 km
3. C8FRFRCSuburb1.6 km by 1.92 km
4. 28FRFRC2A few streets320 m by 384 m
5. 58FRFRC25Building64 m by 76.9 m
6. J8FRFRC25JEntrance12.8 m by 15.4 m
7. H8FRFRC25JHDoorway2.56 m by 3.07 m

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