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Dallas

TexasUnited States

Grid Point Code for Dallas
With a code
#G8N6W-7N43R
Said aloud
Dallas 7N43R

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Dallas is #G8N6W-7N43R. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.88 m east to west, centred on 32°46'58.99"N, 96°48'23.98"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 Dallas, near its centre.

Code
#G8N6W-7N43R
With a check character
#G8N6W-7N43R*F
Short form
7N43R
Cell centre
32.783052, -96.806661
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.88 m
Region
Texas
Country
United States
Population
1,326,087

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #G8N6W-7N43R. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Texas

Dallas 7N43R: 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 4.5 km east or west of Dallas. 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

#G8N6W-7N43R*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 44.9 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. G8N6Metropolitan area40 km by 44.9 km
  2. G8N6WDistrict8 km by 8.98 km
  3. G8N6W7Suburb1.6 km by 1.8 km
  4. G8N6W7NA few streets320 m by 359 m
  5. G8N6W7N4Building64 m by 71.9 m
  6. G8N6W7N43Entrance12.8 m by 14.4 m
  7. G8N6W7N43RDoorway2.56 m by 2.88 m

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