Grid Point Code

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Mount Elbrus

near UchkulanKabardino-BalkariaRussia

With a code
#J3T3F-0D231
Said aloud
Mount Elbrus 0D231

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Mount Elbrus is #J3T3F-0D231. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.49 m east to west, centred on 43°21'09.13"N, 42°26'16.38"E, 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
Highest mountain of the Caucasus and highest mountain in Europe
Code
#J3T3F-0D231
With a check character
#J3T3F-0D231*J
Short form
0D231
Cell centre
43.352536, 42.437883
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.49 m
Region
Kabardino-Balkaria
Country
Russia

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #J3T3F-0D231. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Kabardino-Balkaria

Mount Elbrus 0D231: 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 3.9 km east or west of Mount Elbrus. 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

#J3T3F-0D231*J. 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 38.9 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.

  1. J3T3Metropolitan area40 km by 38.9 km
  2. J3T3FDistrict8 km by 7.77 km
  3. J3T3F0Suburb1.6 km by 1.55 km
  4. J3T3F0DA few streets320 m by 311 m
  5. J3T3F0D2Building64 m by 62.2 m
  6. J3T3F0D23Entrance12.8 m by 12.4 m
  7. J3T3F0D231Doorway2.56 m by 2.49 m

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