Grid Point Code

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Barinas

Venezuela

With a code
#GX06R-LJ6KW
Said aloud
Barinas LJ6KW

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Barinas is #GX06R-LJ6KW. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.38 m east to west, centred on 8°37'14.29"N, 70°13'51.73"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 Barinas, near its centre.

Code
#GX06R-LJ6KW
With a check character
#GX06R-LJ6KW*3
Short form
LJ6KW
Cell centre
8.620635, -70.231035
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.38 m
Country
Venezuela
Population
397,279

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #GX06R-LJ6KW. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Venezuela

Barinas LJ6KW: 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 5.3 km east or west of Barinas. 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

#GX06R-LJ6KW*3. 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 52.8 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. GX06Metropolitan area40 km by 52.8 km
  2. GX06RDistrict8 km by 10.6 km
  3. GX06RLSuburb1.6 km by 2.11 km
  4. GX06RLJA few streets320 m by 423 m
  5. GX06RLJ6Building64 m by 84.5 m
  6. GX06RLJ6KEntrance12.8 m by 16.9 m
  7. GX06RLJ6KWDoorway2.56 m by 3.38 m

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