Grid Point Code

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Bauchi

Nigeria

With a code
#JNP57-2W22K
Said aloud
Bauchi 2W22K

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Bauchi is #JNP57-2W22K. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.36 m east to west, centred on 10°18'37.15"N, 9°50'37.94"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 Bauchi, near its centre.

Code
#JNP57-2W22K
With a check character
#JNP57-2W22K*7
Short form
2W22K
Cell centre
10.310319, 9.843871
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.36 m
Country
Nigeria
Population
693,700

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #JNP57-2W22K. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Nigeria

Bauchi 2W22K: 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 5.3 km east or west of Bauchi. 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

#JNP57-2W22K*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 52.6 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. JNP5Metropolitan area40 km by 52.6 km
  2. JNP57District8 km by 10.5 km
  3. JNP572Suburb1.6 km by 2.1 km
  4. JNP572WA few streets320 m by 421 m
  5. JNP572W2Building64 m by 84.1 m
  6. JNP572W22Entrance12.8 m by 16.8 m
  7. JNP572W22KDoorway2.56 m by 3.36 m

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