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Baoji

ShaanxiChina

Grid Point Code for Baoji
With a code
#KK0RF-9KM74
Said aloud
Baoji 9KM74

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Baoji is #KK0RF-9KM74. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.82 m east to west, centred on 34°22'03.87"N, 107°14'13.39"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

The point used is the one GeoNames records for Baoji, near its centre.

Code
#KK0RF-9KM74
With a check character
#KK0RF-9KM74*X
Short form
9KM74
Cell centre
34.367743, 107.237053
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.82 m
Region
Shaanxi
Country
China
Population
1,437,802

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KK0RF-9KM74. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Shaanxi

Baoji 9KM74: 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 4.4 km east or west of Baoji. 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

#KK0RF-9KM74*X. 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 44.1 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. KK0RMetropolitan area40 km by 44.1 km
  2. KK0RFDistrict8 km by 8.82 km
  3. KK0RF9Suburb1.6 km by 1.76 km
  4. KK0RF9KA few streets320 m by 353 m
  5. KK0RF9KMBuilding64 m by 70.6 m
  6. KK0RF9KM7Entrance12.8 m by 14.1 m
  7. KK0RF9KM74Doorway2.56 m by 2.82 m

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