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Preikestolen

near JørpelandRogalandNorway

Grid Point Code for Preikestolen
With a code
#PJF70-76D64
Said aloud
Preikestolen 76D64

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Preikestolen is #PJF70-76D64. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 1.76 m east to west, centred on 58°59'11.94"N, 6°11'14.94"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
Steep cliff in Norway
Code
#PJF70-76D64
With a check character
#PJF70-76D64*8
Short form
76D64
Cell centre
58.986651, 6.187484
Cell size
2.56 m by 1.76 m
Region
Rogaland
Country
Norway

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PJF70-76D64. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Rogaland

Preikestolen 76D64: 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 2.8 km east or west of Preikestolen. 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

#PJF70-76D64*8. 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 27.5 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. PJF7Metropolitan area40 km by 27.5 km
  2. PJF70District8 km by 5.51 km
  3. PJF707Suburb1.6 km by 1.1 km
  4. PJF7076A few streets320 m by 220 m
  5. PJF7076DBuilding64 m by 44 m
  6. PJF7076D6Entrance12.8 m by 8.81 m
  7. PJF7076D64Doorway2.56 m by 1.76 m

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