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Iaşi

Iași CountyRomania

Grid Point Code for Iaşi
With a code
#PTK72-2F7FT
Said aloud
Iaşi 2F7FT

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Iaşi is #PTK72-2F7FT. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.32 m east to west, centred on 47°10'00.01"N, 27°36'00.00"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 Iaşi, near its centre.

Code
#PTK72-2F7FT
With a check character
#PTK72-2F7FT*6
Short form
2F7FT
Cell centre
47.166670, 27.600000
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.32 m
Region
Iași County
Country
Romania
Population
378,954

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PTK72-2F7FT. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Iași County

Iaşi 2F7FT: 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 3.6 km east or west of Iaşi. 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

#PTK72-2F7FT*6. 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 36.3 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. PTK7Metropolitan area40 km by 36.3 km
  2. PTK72District8 km by 7.27 km
  3. PTK722Suburb1.6 km by 1.45 km
  4. PTK722FA few streets320 m by 291 m
  5. PTK722F7Building64 m by 58.1 m
  6. PTK722F7FEntrance12.8 m by 11.6 m
  7. PTK722F7FTDoorway2.56 m by 2.32 m

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