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Antipolo

CalabarzonPhilippines

Grid Point Code for Antipolo
With a code
#LN5T8-37KW0
Said aloud
Antipolo 37KW0

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Antipolo is #LN5T8-37KW0. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.31 m east to west, centred on 14°37'32.81"N, 121°07'21.09"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 Antipolo, near its centre.

Code
#LN5T8-37KW0
With a check character
#LN5T8-37KW0*3
Short form
37KW0
Cell centre
14.625780, 121.122524
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.31 m
Region
Calabarzon
Country
Philippines
Population
913,712

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #LN5T8-37KW0. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Calabarzon

Antipolo 37KW0: 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 5.2 km east or west of Antipolo. 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

#LN5T8-37KW0*3. 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 51.7 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. LN5TMetropolitan area40 km by 51.7 km
  2. LN5T8District8 km by 10.3 km
  3. LN5T83Suburb1.6 km by 2.07 km
  4. LN5T837A few streets320 m by 414 m
  5. LN5T837KBuilding64 m by 82.7 m
  6. LN5T837KWEntrance12.8 m by 16.5 m
  7. LN5T837KW0Doorway2.56 m by 3.31 m

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