Grid Point Code

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Ciudad Guayana

BolívarVenezuela

With a code
#GX3J2-TTM5J
Said aloud
Ciudad Guayana TTM5J

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Ciudad Guayana is #GX3J2-TTM5J. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.38 m east to west, centred on 8°21'04.42"N, 62°38'27.65"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 Ciudad Guayana, near its centre.

Code
#GX3J2-TTM5J
With a check character
#GX3J2-TTM5J*6
Short form
TTM5J
Cell centre
8.351228, -62.641014
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.38 m
Region
Bolívar
Country
Venezuela
Population
978,202

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #GX3J2-TTM5J. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Bolívar

Ciudad Guayana TTM5J: 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 Ciudad Guayana. 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

#GX3J2-TTM5J*6. 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 52.9 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. GX3JMetropolitan area40 km by 52.9 km
  2. GX3J2District8 km by 10.6 km
  3. GX3J2TSuburb1.6 km by 2.11 km
  4. GX3J2TTA few streets320 m by 423 m
  5. GX3J2TTMBuilding64 m by 84.6 m
  6. GX3J2TTM5Entrance12.8 m by 16.9 m
  7. GX3J2TTM5JDoorway2.56 m by 3.38 m

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City, region and population from GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0.