Zuma Rock

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Zuma Rock is #JNR45-RW5GX. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.38 m east to west, centred on 9°07'49.50"N, 7°14'02.26"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

Monolith in Nigeria

Code

#JNR45-RW5GX

With a check character

#JNR45-RW5GX*7

Short form

RW5GX

Cell centre

9.130418, 7.233961

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.38 m

Region

Niger State

Country

Nigeria

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #JNR45-RW5GX. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Niger State

Zuma Rock RW5GX: 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 Zuma Rock. 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

#JNR45-RW5GX*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 52.8 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. 4JNR4Metropolitan area40 km by 52.8 km
2. 5JNR45District8 km by 10.6 km
3. RJNR45RSuburb1.6 km by 2.11 km
4. WJNR45RWA few streets320 m by 422 m
5. 5JNR45RW5Building64 m by 84.4 m
6. GJNR45RW5GEntrance12.8 m by 16.9 m
7. XJNR45RW5GXDoorway2.56 m by 3.38 m

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