Pitch Lake

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Pitch Lake is #GJP6G-0D098. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.37 m east to west, centred on 10°13'56.96"N, 61°37'40.99"W, 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

Landform

Code

#GJP6G-0D098

With a check character

#GJP6G-0D098*M

Short form

0D098

Cell centre

10.232490, -61.628052

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.37 m

Region

Siparia Regional Corporation

Country

Trinidad and Tobago

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #GJP6G-0D098. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Siparia Regional Corporation

Pitch Lake 0D098: 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 Pitch Lake. 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

#GJP6G-0D098*M. 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 52.6 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. 6GJP6Metropolitan area40 km by 52.6 km
2. GGJP6GDistrict8 km by 10.5 km
3. 0GJP6G0Suburb1.6 km by 2.1 km
4. DGJP6G0DA few streets320 m by 421 m
5. 0GJP6G0D0Building64 m by 84.1 m
6. 9GJP6G0D09Entrance12.8 m by 16.8 m
7. 8GJP6G0D098Doorway2.56 m by 3.37 m

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