Grid Point Code

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Ţarţūs

TartusSyria

With a code
#J70N3-HP76W
Said aloud
Ţarţūs HP76W

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Ţarţūs is #J70N3-HP76W. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.81 m east to west, centred on 34°53'20.48"N, 35°53'11.75"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 Ţarţūs, near its centre.

Code
#J70N3-HP76W
With a check character
#J70N3-HP76W*2
Short form
HP76W
Cell centre
34.889023, 35.886597
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.81 m
Region
Tartus
Country
Syria
Population
458,327

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #J70N3-HP76W. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Tartus

Ţarţūs HP76W: 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 Ţarţūs. 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

#J70N3-HP76W*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 43.8 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. J70NMetropolitan area40 km by 43.8 km
  2. J70N3District8 km by 8.77 km
  3. J70N3HSuburb1.6 km by 1.75 km
  4. J70N3HPA few streets320 m by 351 m
  5. J70N3HP7Building64 m by 70.1 m
  6. J70N3HP76Entrance12.8 m by 14 m
  7. J70N3HP76WDoorway2.56 m by 2.81 m

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