La Cancha

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for La Cancha is #C9TL5-5FFP3. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.26 m east to west, centred on 17°24'07.98"S, 66°09'11.97"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

Market in Cochabamba, Bolivia

Code

#C9TL5-5FFP3

With a check character

#C9TL5-5FFP3*K

Short form

5FFP3

Cell centre

-17.402216, -66.153324

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.26 m

City

Cochabamba

Region

Cochabamba Department

Country

Bolivia

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #C9TL5-5FFP3. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Cochabamba

La Cancha 5FFP3: 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 La Cancha. 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

#C9TL5-5FFP3*K. 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 51 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. LC9TLMetropolitan area40 km by 51 km
2. 5C9TL5District8 km by 10.2 km
3. 5C9TL55Suburb1.6 km by 2.04 km
4. FC9TL55FA few streets320 m by 408 m
5. FC9TL55FFBuilding64 m by 81.6 m
6. PC9TL55FFPEntrance12.8 m by 16.3 m
7. 3C9TL55FFP3Doorway2.56 m by 3.26 m

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