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Antakya

HatayTurkey

Grid Point Code for Antakya
With a code
#J300D-WN9GT
Said aloud
Antakya WN9GT

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Antakya is #J300D-WN9GT. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.76 m east to west, centred on 36°12'23.55"N, 36°09'25.96"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 Antakya, near its centre.

Code
#J300D-WN9GT
With a check character
#J300D-WN9GT*4
Short form
WN9GT
Cell centre
36.206542, 36.157210
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.76 m
Region
Hatay
Country
Turkey
Population
399,045

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #J300D-WN9GT. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Hatay

Antakya WN9GT: 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 4.3 km east or west of Antakya. 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

#J300D-WN9GT*4. 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 43.1 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. J300Metropolitan area40 km by 43.1 km
  2. J300DDistrict8 km by 8.62 km
  3. J300DWSuburb1.6 km by 1.72 km
  4. J300DWNA few streets320 m by 345 m
  5. J300DWN9Building64 m by 69 m
  6. J300DWN9GEntrance12.8 m by 13.8 m
  7. J300DWN9GTDoorway2.56 m by 2.76 m

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