Mbare Musika

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Mbare Musika is #87TXK-R2J0G. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.25 m east to west, centred on 17°51'28.03"S, 31°02'19.00"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

Code

#87TXK-R2J0G

With a check character

#87TXK-R2J0G*M

Short form

R2J0G

Cell centre

-17.857786, 31.038612

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.25 m

City

Harare

Region

Harare

Country

Zimbabwe

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #87TXK-R2J0G. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Harare

Mbare Musika R2J0G: 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 Mbare Musika. 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

#87TXK-R2J0G*M. 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 50.9 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. X87TXMetropolitan area40 km by 50.9 km
2. K87TXKDistrict8 km by 10.2 km
3. R87TXKRSuburb1.6 km by 2.03 km
4. 287TXKR2A few streets320 m by 407 m
5. J87TXKR2JBuilding64 m by 81.4 m
6. 087TXKR2J0Entrance12.8 m by 16.3 m
7. G87TXKR2J0GDoorway2.56 m by 3.25 m

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