Bulawayo

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Bulawayo is #8F6X2-36F9R. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.21 m east to west, centred on 20°08'59.96"S, 28°34'59.94"E, 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 Bulawayo, near its centre.

Code

#8F6X2-36F9R

With a check character

#8F6X2-36F9R*L

Short form

36F9R

Cell centre

-20.149989, 28.583316

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.21 m

Country

Zimbabwe

Population

665,952

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #8F6X2-36F9R. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Zimbabwe

Bulawayo 36F9R: 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 5.0 km east or west of Bulawayo. 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

#8F6X2-36F9R*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 50.2 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. X8F6XMetropolitan area40 km by 50.2 km
2. 28F6X2District8 km by 10 km
3. 38F6X23Suburb1.6 km by 2.01 km
4. 68F6X236A few streets320 m by 401 m
5. F8F6X236FBuilding64 m by 80.3 m
6. 98F6X236F9Entrance12.8 m by 16.1 m
7. R8F6X236F9RDoorway2.56 m by 3.21 m

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