Timişoara

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Timişoara is #PW1CW-C7LG8. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.39 m east to west, centred on 45°45'13.39"N, 21°13'32.60"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 Timişoara, near its centre.

Code

#PW1CW-C7LG8

With a check character

#PW1CW-C7LG8*M

Short form

C7LG8

Cell centre

45.753719, 21.225723

Cell size

2.56 m by 2.39 m

Region

Timiș County

Country

Romania

Population

250,849

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PW1CW-C7LG8. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Timiș County

Timişoara C7LG8: 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 3.7 km east or west of Timişoara. 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

#PW1CW-C7LG8*M. 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 37.3 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. CPW1CMetropolitan area40 km by 37.3 km
2. WPW1CWDistrict8 km by 7.46 km
3. CPW1CWCSuburb1.6 km by 1.49 km
4. 7PW1CWC7A few streets320 m by 298 m
5. LPW1CWC7LBuilding64 m by 59.7 m
6. GPW1CWC7LGEntrance12.8 m by 11.9 m
7. 8PW1CWC7LG8Doorway2.56 m by 2.39 m

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