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Feria de San Telmo

Buenos AiresArgentina

Without a code
Feria de San Telmo, Buenos Aires, and then directions
With a code
#950K3-4X077
Said aloud
Feria de San Telmo 4X077

This code is one spot in Feria de San Telmo, a cell 2.56 m by 2.81 m. Every stall front and doorway in it has a code of its own.

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Feria de San Telmo is #950K3-4X077. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.81 m east to west, centred on 34°37'13.19"S, 58°22'17.24"W, 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
Antique fair in barrio of San Telmo, in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Code
#950K3-4X077
With a check character
#950K3-4X077*3
Short form
4X077
Cell centre
-34.620330, -58.371456
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.81 m
City
Buenos Aires
Region
Buenos Aires
Country
Argentina

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #950K3-4X077. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Buenos Aires

Feria de San Telmo 4X077: 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 4.4 km east or west of Feria de San Telmo. 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

#950K3-4X077*3. 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 44 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. 950KMetropolitan area40 km by 44 km
  2. 950K3District8 km by 8.79 km
  3. 950K34Suburb1.6 km by 1.76 km
  4. 950K34XA few streets320 m by 352 m
  5. 950K34X0Building64 m by 70.4 m
  6. 950K34X07Entrance12.8 m by 14.1 m
  7. 950K34X077Doorway2.56 m by 2.81 m

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