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Kensington Market

TorontoOntarioCanada

Without a code
Kensington Market, Toronto, and then directions
With a code
#G3RJL-5FRDL
Said aloud
Kensington Market 5FRDL

This code is one spot in Kensington Market, a cell 2.56 m by 2.47 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 Kensington Market is #G3RJL-5FRDL. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.47 m east to west, centred on 43°39'17.19"N, 79°24'02.44"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
Neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Code
#G3RJL-5FRDL
With a check character
#G3RJL-5FRDL*D
Short form
5FRDL
Cell centre
43.654775, -79.400678
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.47 m
City
Toronto
Region
Ontario
Country
Canada

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #G3RJL-5FRDL. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Toronto

Kensington Market 5FRDL: 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 3.9 km east or west of Kensington 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

#G3RJL-5FRDL*D. 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 38.7 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. G3RJMetropolitan area40 km by 38.7 km
  2. G3RJLDistrict8 km by 7.73 km
  3. G3RJL5Suburb1.6 km by 1.55 km
  4. G3RJL5FA few streets320 m by 309 m
  5. G3RJL5FRBuilding64 m by 61.9 m
  6. G3RJL5FRDEntrance12.8 m by 12.4 m
  7. G3RJL5FRDLDoorway2.56 m by 2.47 m

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