Grid Point Code

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Ḩamāh

HamaSyria

With a code
#J6XGF-XLG8G
Said aloud
Ḩamāh XLG8G

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Ḩamāh is #J6XGF-XLG8G. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.80 m east to west, centred on 35°07'54.46"N, 36°45'28.14"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 Ḩamāh, near its centre.

Code
#J6XGF-XLG8G
With a check character
#J6XGF-XLG8G*X
Short form
XLG8G
Cell centre
35.131795, 36.757816
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.80 m
Region
Hama
Country
Syria
Population
460,602

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #J6XGF-XLG8G. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Hama

Ḩamāh XLG8G: 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 4.4 km east or west of Ḩamāh. 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

#J6XGF-XLG8G*X. 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 43.7 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. J6XGMetropolitan area40 km by 43.7 km
  2. J6XGFDistrict8 km by 8.74 km
  3. J6XGFXSuburb1.6 km by 1.75 km
  4. J6XGFXLA few streets320 m by 350 m
  5. J6XGFXLGBuilding64 m by 69.9 m
  6. J6XGFXLG8Entrance12.8 m by 14 m
  7. J6XGFXLG8GDoorway2.56 m by 2.8 m

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