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Wrocław

Lower SilesiaPoland

Grid Point Code for Wrocław
With a code
#PWL9T-M0PLK
Said aloud
Wrocław M0PLK

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Wrocław is #PWL9T-M0PLK. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.15 m east to west, centred on 51°06'10.33"N, 17°01'48.17"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 Wrocław, near its centre.

Code
#PWL9T-M0PLK
With a check character
#PWL9T-M0PLK*1
Short form
M0PLK
Cell centre
51.102870, 17.030047
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.15 m
Region
Lower Silesia
Country
Poland
Population
672,545

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PWL9T-M0PLK. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Lower Silesia

Wrocław M0PLK: 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 3.4 km east or west of Wrocław. 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

#PWL9T-M0PLK*1. 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 33.6 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. PWL9Metropolitan area40 km by 33.6 km
  2. PWL9TDistrict8 km by 6.71 km
  3. PWL9TMSuburb1.6 km by 1.34 km
  4. PWL9TM0A few streets320 m by 268 m
  5. PWL9TM0PBuilding64 m by 53.7 m
  6. PWL9TM0PLEntrance12.8 m by 10.7 m
  7. PWL9TM0PLKDoorway2.56 m by 2.15 m

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City, region and population from GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0.