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Municipal Market of São Paulo

São PauloBrazil

Without a code
Municipal Market of São Paulo, São Paulo, and then directions
With a code
#9GJ25-1RX46
Said aloud
Municipal Market of São Paulo 1RX46

This code is one spot in Municipal Market of São Paulo, a cell 2.56 m by 3.14 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 Municipal Market of São Paulo is #9GJ25-1RX46. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.14 m east to west, centred on 23°32'29.98"S, 46°37'45.00"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 São Paulo
Code
#9GJ25-1RX46
With a check character
#9GJ25-1RX46*1
Short form
1RX46
Cell centre
-23.541661, -46.629166
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.14 m
City
São Paulo
Region
São Paulo
Country
Brazil

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #9GJ25-1RX46. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in São Paulo

Municipal Market of São Paulo 1RX46: 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 Municipal Market of São Paulo. 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

#9GJ25-1RX46*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 49 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. 9GJ2Metropolitan area40 km by 49 km
  2. 9GJ25District8 km by 9.8 km
  3. 9GJ251Suburb1.6 km by 1.96 km
  4. 9GJ251RA few streets320 m by 392 m
  5. 9GJ251RXBuilding64 m by 78.4 m
  6. 9GJ251RX4Entrance12.8 m by 15.7 m
  7. 9GJ251RX46Doorway2.56 m by 3.14 m

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