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Adelaide Central Market

AdelaideSouth AustraliaAustralia

Without a code
Adelaide Central Market, Adelaide, and then directions
With a code
#6K2G3-WKKP6
Said aloud
Adelaide Central Market WKKP6

This code is one spot in Adelaide Central Market, a cell 2.56 m by 2.80 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 Adelaide Central Market is #6K2G3-WKKP6. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.80 m east to west, centred on 34°55'46.96"S, 138°35'52.79"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
Produce market in Adelaide, South Australia
Code
#6K2G3-WKKP6
With a check character
#6K2G3-WKKP6*1
Short form
WKKP6
Cell centre
-34.929711, 138.597996
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.80 m
City
Adelaide
Region
South Australia
Country
Australia

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #6K2G3-WKKP6. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Adelaide

Adelaide Central Market WKKP6: 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 Adelaide Central Market. 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

#6K2G3-WKKP6*1. 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 43.8 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. 6K2GMetropolitan area40 km by 43.8 km
  2. 6K2G3District8 km by 8.76 km
  3. 6K2G3WSuburb1.6 km by 1.75 km
  4. 6K2G3WKA few streets320 m by 350 m
  5. 6K2G3WKKBuilding64 m by 70.1 m
  6. 6K2G3WKKPEntrance12.8 m by 14 m
  7. 6K2G3WKKP6Doorway2.56 m by 2.8 m

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