Grid Point Code

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Gasteiz / Vitoria

Basque CountrySpain

With a code
#HXK0T-0KCN6
Said aloud
Gasteiz / Vitoria 0KCN6

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Gasteiz / Vitoria is #HXK0T-0KCN6. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.51 m east to west, centred on 42°50'59.96"N, 2°40'21.67"W, 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 Gasteiz / Vitoria, near its centre.

Code
#HXK0T-0KCN6
With a check character
#HXK0T-0KCN6*3
Short form
0KCN6
Cell centre
42.849988, -2.672686
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.51 m
Region
Basque Country
Country
Spain
Population
257,407

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #HXK0T-0KCN6. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Basque Country

Gasteiz / Vitoria 0KCN6: 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 Gasteiz / Vitoria. 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

#HXK0T-0KCN6*3. 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 39.2 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. HXK0Metropolitan area40 km by 39.2 km
  2. HXK0TDistrict8 km by 7.83 km
  3. HXK0T0Suburb1.6 km by 1.57 km
  4. HXK0T0KA few streets320 m by 313 m
  5. HXK0T0KCBuilding64 m by 62.7 m
  6. HXK0T0KCNEntrance12.8 m by 12.5 m
  7. HXK0T0KCN6Doorway2.56 m by 2.51 m

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