Grid Point Code
Source on GitHub

Play

Kinama Market

BujumburaBujumbura MairieBurundi

Grid Point Code for Kinama Market
Without a code
Kinama Market, Bujumbura, and then directions
With a code
#827RM-NG754
Said aloud
Kinama Market NG754

This code is one spot in Kinama Market, a cell 2.56 m by 3.41 m. Every stall front and doorway in it has a code of its own.

Get the code for your door

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Kinama Market is #827RM-NG754. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.41 m east to west, centred on 3°19'58.31"S, 29°22'55.22"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
Public market in Bujumbura, Burundi
Code
#827RM-NG754
With a check character
#827RM-NG754*L
Short form
NG754
Cell centre
-3.332863, 29.382006
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.41 m
City
Bujumbura
Region
Bujumbura Mairie
Country
Burundi

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #827RM-NG754. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Bujumbura

Kinama Market NG754: 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 5.3 km east or west of Kinama 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

#827RM-NG754*L. 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 53.3 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. 827RMetropolitan area40 km by 53.3 km
  2. 827RMDistrict8 km by 10.7 km
  3. 827RMNSuburb1.6 km by 2.13 km
  4. 827RMNGA few streets320 m by 427 m
  5. 827RMNG7Building64 m by 85.3 m
  6. 827RMNG75Entrance12.8 m by 17.1 m
  7. 827RMNG754Doorway2.56 m by 3.41 m

More in Burundi

Place and region from Wikidata, described on Wikipedia; city from GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0.