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Queens

New YorkUnited States

Grid Point Code for Queens
With a code
#G3HMX-41GG2
Said aloud
Queens 41GG2

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Queens is #G3HMX-41GG2. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.59 m east to west, centred on 40°40'53.35"N, 73°50'11.46"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 Queens, near its centre.

Code
#G3HMX-41GG2
With a check character
#G3HMX-41GG2*R
Short form
41GG2
Cell centre
40.681486, -73.836518
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.59 m
Region
New York
Country
United States
Population
2,316,841

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #G3HMX-41GG2. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in New York

Queens 41GG2: 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 4.1 km east or west of Queens. 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

#G3HMX-41GG2*R. 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 40.5 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. G3HMMetropolitan area40 km by 40.5 km
  2. G3HMXDistrict8 km by 8.1 km
  3. G3HMX4Suburb1.6 km by 1.62 km
  4. G3HMX41A few streets320 m by 324 m
  5. G3HMX41GBuilding64 m by 64.8 m
  6. G3HMX41GGEntrance12.8 m by 13 m
  7. G3HMX41GG2Doorway2.56 m by 2.59 m

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