Rhine Falls

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Rhine Falls is #PXMFH-33G26. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.30 m east to west, centred on 47°40'37.97"N, 8°36'57.02"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

Waterfall on the Rhein River in Switzerland

Code

#PXMFH-33G26

With a check character

#PXMFH-33G26*J

Short form

33G26

Cell centre

47.677213, 8.615839

Cell size

2.56 m by 2.30 m

Region

Canton of Zurich

Country

Switzerland

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PXMFH-33G26. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Canton of Zurich

Rhine Falls 33G26: 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 Rhine Falls. 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

#PXMFH-33G26*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 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. FPXMFMetropolitan area40 km by 36 km
2. HPXMFHDistrict8 km by 7.2 km
3. 3PXMFH3Suburb1.6 km by 1.44 km
4. 3PXMFH33A few streets320 m by 288 m
5. GPXMFH33GBuilding64 m by 57.6 m
6. 2PXMFH33G2Entrance12.8 m by 11.5 m
7. 6PXMFH33G26Doorway2.56 m by 2.3 m

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