Mount Pico

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Mount Pico is #HT6J4-9C392. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.68 m east to west, centred on 38°28'06.99"N, 28°23'57.05"W, 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

Stratovolcano in the Azores and the highest mountain of Portugal

Code

#HT6J4-9C392

With a check character

#HT6J4-9C392*4

Short form

9C392

Cell centre

38.468609, -28.399181

Cell size

2.56 m by 2.68 m

Region

Azores

Country

Portugal

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #HT6J4-9C392. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Azores

Mount Pico 9C392: 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 4.2 km east or west of Mount Pico. 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

#HT6J4-9C392*4. 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 41.8 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. JHT6JMetropolitan area40 km by 41.8 km
2. 4HT6J4District8 km by 8.37 km
3. 9HT6J49Suburb1.6 km by 1.67 km
4. CHT6J49CA few streets320 m by 335 m
5. 3HT6J49C3Building64 m by 66.9 m
6. 9HT6J49C39Entrance12.8 m by 13.4 m
7. 2HT6J49C392Doorway2.56 m by 2.68 m

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