Grid Point Code

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Chowk Bazaar

DhakaDhaka DivisionBangladesh

Without a code
Chowk Bazaar, Dhaka, and then directions
With a code
#KFL13-GPWF3
Said aloud
Chowk Bazaar GPWF3

This code is one spot in Chowk Bazaar, a cell 2.56 m by 3.13 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 Chowk Bazaar is #KFL13-GPWF3. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.13 m east to west, centred on 23°43'01.35"N, 90°23'46.75"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
Wholesale market area in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Code
#KFL13-GPWF3
With a check character
#KFL13-GPWF3*7
Short form
GPWF3
Cell centre
23.717042, 90.396319
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.13 m
City
Dhaka
Region
Dhaka Division
Country
Bangladesh

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KFL13-GPWF3. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Dhaka

Chowk Bazaar GPWF3: 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 4.9 km east or west of Chowk Bazaar. 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

#KFL13-GPWF3*7. 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 48.9 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. KFL1Metropolitan area40 km by 48.9 km
  2. KFL13District8 km by 9.78 km
  3. KFL13GSuburb1.6 km by 1.96 km
  4. KFL13GPA few streets320 m by 391 m
  5. KFL13GPWBuilding64 m by 78.3 m
  6. KFL13GPWFEntrance12.8 m by 15.7 m
  7. KFL13GPWF3Doorway2.56 m by 3.13 m

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