Fish River Canyon
Karas RegionNamibia
- With a code
#8KTMR-02GK9- Said aloud
- Fish River Canyon
02GK9
What the code says
The Grid Point Code for Fish River Canyon is #8KTMR-02GK9. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.03 m east to west, centred on 27°43'07.31"S, 17°34'42.90"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
- Canyon located in the south of Namibia
- Code
#8KTMR-02GK9- With a check character
#8KTMR-02GK9*0- Short form
02GK9- Cell centre
- -27.718698, 17.578583
- Cell size
- 2.56 m by 3.03 m
- Region
- Karas Region
- Country
- Namibia
How to give this address
- On a sign, a form or a delivery note
The whole code,
#8KTMR-02GK9. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.- Said aloud, in Karas Region
Fish River Canyon 02GK9: 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 4.7 km east or west of Fish River Canyon. 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
#8KTMR-02GK9*0. 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 47.3 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.
- 8KTMMetropolitan area40 km by 47.3 km
- 8KTMRDistrict8 km by 9.46 km
- 8KTMR0Suburb1.6 km by 1.89 km
- 8KTMR02A few streets320 m by 378 m
- 8KTMR02GBuilding64 m by 75.7 m
- 8KTMR02GKEntrance12.8 m by 15.1 m
- 8KTMR02GK9Doorway2.56 m by 3.03 m