Victoria Falls

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Victoria Falls is #87PW5-1K0G1. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.25 m east to west, centred on 17°55'29.23"S, 25°51'28.99"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is

Waterfall on the Zambezi River in Zambia and Zimbabwe

Code

#87PW5-1K0G1

With a check character

#87PW5-1K0G1*L

Short form

1K0G1

Cell centre

-17.924786, 25.858053

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.25 m

Region

Southern Province

Country

Zambia

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #87PW5-1K0G1. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Southern Province

Victoria Falls 1K0G1: 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 5.1 km east or west of Victoria Falls. 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

#87PW5-1K0G1*L. 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 50.8 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. W87PWMetropolitan area40 km by 50.8 km
2. 587PW5District8 km by 10.2 km
3. 187PW51Suburb1.6 km by 2.03 km
4. K87PW51KA few streets320 m by 407 m
5. 087PW51K0Building64 m by 81.3 m
6. G87PW51K0GEntrance12.8 m by 16.3 m
7. 187PW51K0G1Doorway2.56 m by 3.25 m

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