Bern

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Bern is #PXM0F-25F4C. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.33 m east to west, centred on 46°56'53.12"N, 7°26'50.76"E, 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 Bern, near its centre, and Bern is the capital of Switzerland.

Code

#PXM0F-25F4C

With a check character

#PXM0F-25F4C*J

Short form

25F4C

Cell centre

46.948090, 7.447434

Cell size

2.56 m by 2.33 m

Country

Switzerland

Population

121,631

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PXM0F-25F4C. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Switzerland

Bern 25F4C: 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 3.6 km east or west of Bern. 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

#PXM0F-25F4C*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 36.5 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. 0PXM0Metropolitan area40 km by 36.5 km
2. FPXM0FDistrict8 km by 7.3 km
3. 2PXM0F2Suburb1.6 km by 1.46 km
4. 5PXM0F25A few streets320 m by 292 m
5. FPXM0F25FBuilding64 m by 58.4 m
6. 4PXM0F25F4Entrance12.8 m by 11.7 m
7. CPXM0F25F4CDoorway2.56 m by 2.33 m

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