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Kebnekaise

Norrbotten CountySweden

Grid Point Code for Kebnekaise
With a code
#PGFMG-RP61W
Said aloud
Kebnekaise RP61W

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Kebnekaise is #PGFMG-RP61W. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 1.29 m east to west, centred on 67°53'00.02"N, 18°33'00.04"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
Sweden's highest mountain
Code
#PGFMG-RP61W
With a check character
#PGFMG-RP61W*R
Short form
RP61W
Cell centre
67.883340, 18.550011
Cell size
2.56 m by 1.29 m
Region
Norrbotten County
Country
Sweden

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PGFMG-RP61W. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Norrbotten County

Kebnekaise RP61W: 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 2.0 km east or west of Kebnekaise. 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

#PGFMG-RP61W*R. 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 20.1 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. PGFMMetropolitan area40 km by 20.1 km
  2. PGFMGDistrict8 km by 4.02 km
  3. PGFMGRSuburb1.6 km by 805 m
  4. PGFMGRPA few streets320 m by 161 m
  5. PGFMGRP6Building64 m by 32.2 m
  6. PGFMGRP61Entrance12.8 m by 6.44 m
  7. PGFMGRP61WDoorway2.56 m by 1.29 m

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