Soweto
GautengSouth Africa
- With a code
#8FWDX-0X54W- Said aloud
- Soweto
0X54W
What the code says
The Grid Point Code for Soweto is #8FWDX-0X54W. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.07 m east to west, centred on 26°16'04.08"S, 27°51'30.52"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 Soweto, near its centre.
- Code
#8FWDX-0X54W- With a check character
#8FWDX-0X54W*2- Short form
0X54W- Cell centre
- -26.267800, 27.858478
- Cell size
- 2.56 m by 3.07 m
- Region
- Gauteng
- Country
- South Africa
- Population
- 1,695,047
How to give this address
- On a sign, a form or a delivery note
The whole code,
#8FWDX-0X54W. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.- Said aloud, in Gauteng
Soweto 0X54W: 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 4.8 km east or west of Soweto. 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
#8FWDX-0X54W*2. 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 47.9 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.
- 8FWDMetropolitan area40 km by 47.9 km
- 8FWDXDistrict8 km by 9.58 km
- 8FWDX0Suburb1.6 km by 1.92 km
- 8FWDX0XA few streets320 m by 383 m
- 8FWDX0X5Building64 m by 76.7 m
- 8FWDX0X54Entrance12.8 m by 15.3 m
- 8FWDX0X54WDoorway2.56 m by 3.07 m
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