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Cagayan de Oro

Northern MindanaoPhilippines

With a code
#LP1JD-T08XK
Said aloud
Cagayan de Oro T08XK

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Cagayan de Oro is #LP1JD-T08XK. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.38 m east to west, centred on 8°28'55.96"N, 124°38'49.97"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 Cagayan de Oro, near its centre.

Code
#LP1JD-T08XK
With a check character
#LP1JD-T08XK*W
Short form
T08XK
Cell centre
8.482211, 124.647214
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.38 m
Region
Northern Mindanao
Country
Philippines
Population
741,617

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #LP1JD-T08XK. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Northern Mindanao

Cagayan de Oro T08XK: 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 Cagayan de Oro. 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

#LP1JD-T08XK*W. 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. LP1JMetropolitan area40 km by 52.8 km
  2. LP1JDDistrict8 km by 10.6 km
  3. LP1JDTSuburb1.6 km by 2.11 km
  4. LP1JDT0A few streets320 m by 423 m
  5. LP1JDT08Building64 m by 84.6 m
  6. LP1JDT08XEntrance12.8 m by 16.9 m
  7. LP1JDT08XKDoorway2.56 m by 3.38 m

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