A method of storing latitude and longitude in 4 unicode8 characters to make conveying location shorter.

Given two values A, B in the format xxx.yyyyyy

Let the integer parts in binary of each be int_A and int_B, both 8 bits. And for each integer the first bit is a sign bit denoted by S. Let the decimal parts in binary of each be dec_A and dec_B. and for each decimal part, Let the first 10 bits be dec_X1 and the second 10 bits be dec_X2.

Let H be the UTF-8 headers.

Let F be filler bits used to avoid bad code points.

 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|    H    | F |S|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| H |   int_A   |
+-+-+   +-+-+-+-+
| H |   |       |
+-+-+-+-+       +
| H |   dec_A1  |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|    H    | F |S|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| H |   int_B   |
+-+-+   +-+-+-+-+
| H |   |       |
+-+-+-+-+       +
| H |   dec_B1  |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|    H    |F|   |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+   +
| H |   dec_A2  |
+-+-+   +-+-+-+-+
| H |   |       |
+-+-+-+-+       +
| H |   dec_B2  |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

• The accuracy of the location stored is accurate to 11mm according to this Stack Exchange answer.