Grid Point Code

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Odesa

Ukraine

With a code
#PTT0X-MWWJ0
Said aloud
Odesa MWWJ0

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Odesa is #PTT0X-MWWJ0. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.35 m east to west, centred on 46°29'08.60"N, 30°44'37.76"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 Odesa, near its centre.

Code
#PTT0X-MWWJ0
With a check character
#PTT0X-MWWJ0*T
Short form
MWWJ0
Cell centre
46.485723, 30.743823
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.35 m
Country
Ukraine
Population
1,010,537

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PTT0X-MWWJ0. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Ukraine

Odesa MWWJ0: 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 3.7 km east or west of Odesa. 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

#PTT0X-MWWJ0*T. 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 36.8 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. PTT0Metropolitan area40 km by 36.8 km
  2. PTT0XDistrict8 km by 7.36 km
  3. PTT0XMSuburb1.6 km by 1.47 km
  4. PTT0XMWA few streets320 m by 294 m
  5. PTT0XMWWBuilding64 m by 58.9 m
  6. PTT0XMWWJEntrance12.8 m by 11.8 m
  7. PTT0XMWWJ0Doorway2.56 m by 2.35 m

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