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Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam RegionTanzania

With a code
#816M0-9379N
Said aloud
Dar es Salaam 9379N

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Dar es Salaam is #816M0-9379N. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.40 m east to west, centred on 6°49'24.57"S, 39°16'10.25"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 Dar es Salaam, near its centre.

Code
#816M0-9379N
With a check character
#816M0-9379N*1
Short form
9379N
Cell centre
-6.823492, 39.269514
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.40 m
Region
Dar es Salaam Region
Country
Tanzania
Population
5,383,728

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #816M0-9379N. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Dar es Salaam Region

Dar es Salaam 9379N: 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 5.3 km east or west of Dar es Salaam. 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

#816M0-9379N*1. 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 53.1 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. 816MMetropolitan area40 km by 53.1 km
  2. 816M0District8 km by 10.6 km
  3. 816M09Suburb1.6 km by 2.12 km
  4. 816M093A few streets320 m by 424 m
  5. 816M0937Building64 m by 84.9 m
  6. 816M09379Entrance12.8 m by 17 m
  7. 816M09379NDoorway2.56 m by 3.4 m

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