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Sevilla

AndalusiaSpain

Grid Point Code for Sevilla
With a code
#HX2LT-6PT79
Said aloud
Sevilla 6PT79

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Sevilla is #HX2LT-6PT79. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.72 m east to west, centred on 37°22'58.17"N, 5°58'23.45"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 Sevilla, near its centre.

Code
#HX2LT-6PT79
With a check character
#HX2LT-6PT79*L
Short form
6PT79
Cell centre
37.382826, -5.973181
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.72 m
Region
Andalusia
Country
Spain
Population
686,741

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #HX2LT-6PT79. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Andalusia

Sevilla 6PT79: 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 4.2 km east or west of Sevilla. 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

#HX2LT-6PT79*L. 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 42.5 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. HX2LMetropolitan area40 km by 42.5 km
  2. HX2LTDistrict8 km by 8.49 km
  3. HX2LT6Suburb1.6 km by 1.7 km
  4. HX2LT6PA few streets320 m by 340 m
  5. HX2LT6PTBuilding64 m by 67.9 m
  6. HX2LT6PT7Entrance12.8 m by 13.6 m
  7. HX2LT6PT79Doorway2.56 m by 2.72 m

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