Sacramento

CaliforniaUnited States

With a code: #FX5GP-T99PH
Said aloud: Sacramento T99PH

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Sacramento is #FX5GP-T99PH. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.67 m east to west, centred on 38°34'53.67"N, 121°29'39.80"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 Sacramento, near its centre.

Code: #FX5GP-T99PH
With a check character: #FX5GP-T99PH*5
Short form: T99PH
Cell centre: 38.581574, -121.494390
Cell size: 2.56 m by 2.67 m
Region: California
Country: United States
Population: 524,943

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note: The whole code, #FX5GP-T99PH. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.
Said aloud, in California: Sacramento T99PH: 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 4.2 km east or west of Sacramento. 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: #FX5GP-T99PH*5. 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 41.8 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.

FX5GMetropolitan area40 km by 41.8 km
FX5GPDistrict8 km by 8.35 km
FX5GPTSuburb1.6 km by 1.67 km
FX5GPT9A few streets320 m by 334 m
FX5GPT99Building64 m by 66.8 m
FX5GPT99PEntrance12.8 m by 13.4 m
FX5GPT99PHDoorway2.56 m by 2.67 m

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