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Trolltunga

near VossVestlandNorway

Grid Point Code for Trolltunga
With a code
#PJ7CX-13HD8
Said aloud
Trolltunga 13HD8

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Trolltunga is #PJ7CX-13HD8. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 1.70 m east to west, centred on 60°07'58.74"N, 6°45'14.37"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
Rock formation in Norway
Code
#PJ7CX-13HD8
With a check character
#PJ7CX-13HD8*X
Short form
13HD8
Cell centre
60.132983, 6.753992
Cell size
2.56 m by 1.70 m
Region
Vestland
Country
Norway

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PJ7CX-13HD8. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Vestland

Trolltunga 13HD8: 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 2.7 km east or west of Trolltunga. 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

#PJ7CX-13HD8*X. 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 26.6 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. PJ7CMetropolitan area40 km by 26.6 km
  2. PJ7CXDistrict8 km by 5.32 km
  3. PJ7CX1Suburb1.6 km by 1.06 km
  4. PJ7CX13A few streets320 m by 213 m
  5. PJ7CX13HBuilding64 m by 42.6 m
  6. PJ7CX13HDEntrance12.8 m by 8.51 m
  7. PJ7CX13HD8Doorway2.56 m by 1.7 m

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