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Cardiff

WalesUnited Kingdom

Grid Point Code for Cardiff
With a code
#R0M63-41XR4
Said aloud
Cardiff 41XR4

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Cardiff is #R0M63-41XR4. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.13 m east to west, centred on 51°28'48.04"N, 3°10'47.99"W, 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 Cardiff, near its centre.

Code
#R0M63-41XR4
With a check character
#R0M63-41XR4*F
Short form
41XR4
Cell centre
51.480012, -3.179996
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.13 m
Region
Wales
Country
United Kingdom
Population
372,089

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #R0M63-41XR4. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Wales

Cardiff 41XR4: 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 3.3 km east or west of Cardiff. 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

#R0M63-41XR4*F. 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 33.3 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. R0M6Metropolitan area40 km by 33.3 km
  2. R0M63District8 km by 6.66 km
  3. R0M634Suburb1.6 km by 1.33 km
  4. R0M6341A few streets320 m by 266 m
  5. R0M6341XBuilding64 m by 53.2 m
  6. R0M6341XREntrance12.8 m by 10.6 m
  7. R0M6341XR4Doorway2.56 m by 2.13 m

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