Horton Plains National Park

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Horton Plains National Park is #K16M1-GM1GM. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.40 m east to west, centred on 6°47'59.97"N, 80°48'00.02"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is

National park in Sri Lanka

Code

#K16M1-GM1GM

With a check character

#K16M1-GM1GM*2

Short form

GM1GM

Cell centre

6.799991, 80.800005

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.40 m

Region

Uva Province

Country

Sri Lanka

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K16M1-GM1GM. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Uva Province

Horton Plains National Park GM1GM: 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 5.3 km east or west of Horton Plains National Park. 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

#K16M1-GM1GM*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 53.1 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. MK16MMetropolitan area40 km by 53.1 km
2. 1K16M1District8 km by 10.6 km
3. GK16M1GSuburb1.6 km by 2.12 km
4. MK16M1GMA few streets320 m by 424 m
5. 1K16M1GM1Building64 m by 84.9 m
6. GK16M1GM1GEntrance12.8 m by 17 m
7. MK16M1GM1GMDoorway2.56 m by 3.4 m

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