Grid Point Code

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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Canary IslandsSpain

With a code
#HKRL4-7HFT4
Said aloud
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 7HFT4

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is #HKRL4-7HFT4. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.02 m east to west, centred on 28°06'06.42"N, 15°24'56.67"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 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, near its centre.

Code
#HKRL4-7HFT4
With a check character
#HKRL4-7HFT4*J
Short form
7HFT4
Cell centre
28.101784, -15.415741
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.02 m
Region
Canary Islands
Country
Spain
Population
383,516

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #HKRL4-7HFT4. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Canary Islands

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 7HFT4: 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 4.7 km east or west of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 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

#HKRL4-7HFT4*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 47.1 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. HKRLMetropolitan area40 km by 47.1 km
  2. HKRL4District8 km by 9.43 km
  3. HKRL47Suburb1.6 km by 1.89 km
  4. HKRL47HA few streets320 m by 377 m
  5. HKRL47HFBuilding64 m by 75.4 m
  6. HKRL47HFTEntrance12.8 m by 15.1 m
  7. HKRL47HFT4Doorway2.56 m by 3.02 m

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