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Vologda

Vologda OblastRussia

Grid Point Code for Vologda
With a code
#PMD3C-FM2K8
Said aloud
Vologda FM2K8

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Vologda is #PMD3C-FM2K8. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 1.75 m east to west, centred on 59°13'26.02"N, 39°53'02.31"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 Vologda, near its centre.

Code
#PMD3C-FM2K8
With a check character
#PMD3C-FM2K8*G
Short form
FM2K8
Cell centre
59.223894, 39.883976
Cell size
2.56 m by 1.75 m
Region
Vologda Oblast
Country
Russia
Population
312,420

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PMD3C-FM2K8. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Vologda Oblast

Vologda FM2K8: 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 2.7 km east or west of Vologda. 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

#PMD3C-FM2K8*G. 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 27.3 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. PMD3Metropolitan area40 km by 27.3 km
  2. PMD3CDistrict8 km by 5.47 km
  3. PMD3CFSuburb1.6 km by 1.09 km
  4. PMD3CFMA few streets320 m by 219 m
  5. PMD3CFM2Building64 m by 43.7 m
  6. PMD3CFM2KEntrance12.8 m by 8.75 m
  7. PMD3CFM2K8Doorway2.56 m by 1.75 m

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