Barnaul

Altai KraiRussia

With a code: #N309L-0JH88
Said aloud: Barnaul 0JH88

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Barnaul is #N309L-0JH88. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.04 m east to west, centred on 53°21'43.16"N, 83°43'40.32"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 Barnaul, near its centre.

Code: #N309L-0JH88
With a check character: #N309L-0JH88*0
Short form: 0JH88
Cell centre: 53.361988, 83.727867
Cell size: 2.56 m by 2.04 m
Region: Altai Krai
Country: Russia
Population: 632,372

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #N309L-0JH88. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Altai Krai: Barnaul 0JH88: 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 3.2 km east or west of Barnaul. 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: #N309L-0JH88*0. 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 31.9 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.

N309Metropolitan area40 km by 31.9 km
N309LDistrict8 km by 6.38 km
N309L0Suburb1.6 km by 1.28 km
N309L0JA few streets320 m by 255 m
N309L0JHBuilding64 m by 51 m
N309L0JH8Entrance12.8 m by 10.2 m
N309L0JH88Doorway2.56 m by 2.04 m

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