Cape Town

Western CapeSouth Africa

With a code: #8K716-X2324
Said aloud: Cape Town X2324

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Cape Town is #8K716-X2324. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.84 m east to west, centred on 33°55'33.01"S, 18°25'23.62"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 Cape Town, near its centre.

Code: #8K716-X2324
With a check character: #8K716-X2324*R
Short form: X2324
Cell centre: -33.925836, 18.423229
Cell size: 2.56 m by 2.84 m
Region: Western Cape
Country: South Africa
Population: 4,772,846

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #8K716-X2324. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in Western Cape: Cape Town X2324: 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 4.4 km east or west of Cape Town. 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: #8K716-X2324*R. 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 44.3 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.

8K71Metropolitan area40 km by 44.3 km
8K716District8 km by 8.87 km
8K716XSuburb1.6 km by 1.77 km
8K716X2A few streets320 m by 355 m
8K716X23Building64 m by 70.9 m
8K716X232Entrance12.8 m by 14.2 m
8K716X2324Doorway2.56 m by 2.84 m

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