Grid Point Code

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Las Piñas

National Capital RegionPhilippines

With a code
#LN5TP-MHC8R
Said aloud
Las Piñas MHC8R

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Las Piñas is #LN5TP-MHC8R. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.31 m east to west, centred on 14°27'02.02"N, 120°58'58.00"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 Las Piñas, near its centre.

Code
#LN5TP-MHC8R
With a check character
#LN5TP-MHC8R*W
Short form
MHC8R
Cell centre
14.450561, 120.982779
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.31 m
Region
National Capital Region
Country
Philippines
Population
615,549

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #LN5TP-MHC8R. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in National Capital Region

Las Piñas MHC8R: 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 Las Piñas. 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

#LN5TP-MHC8R*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 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. LN5TPDistrict8 km by 10.3 km
  3. LN5TPMSuburb1.6 km by 2.07 km
  4. LN5TPMHA few streets320 m by 414 m
  5. LN5TPMHCBuilding64 m by 82.8 m
  6. LN5TPMHC8Entrance12.8 m by 16.6 m
  7. LN5TPMHC8RDoorway2.56 m by 3.31 m

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