Datong
ShanxiChina
- With a code
#KXF8J-P79XP- Said aloud
- Datong
P79XP
What the code says
The Grid Point Code for Datong is #KXF8J-P79XP. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.62 m east to west, centred on 40°05'37.03"N, 113°17'28.98"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 Datong, near its centre.
- Code
#KXF8J-P79XP- With a check character
#KXF8J-P79XP*5- Short form
P79XP- Cell centre
- 40.093620, 113.291382
- Cell size
- 2.56 m by 2.62 m
- Region
- Shanxi
- Country
- China
- Population
- 3,105,591
How to give this address
- On a sign, a form or a delivery note
The whole code,
#KXF8J-P79XP. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.- Said aloud, in Shanxi
Datong P79XP: 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 4.1 km east or west of Datong. 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
#KXF8J-P79XP*5. 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 40.9 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.
- KXF8Metropolitan area40 km by 40.9 km
- KXF8JDistrict8 km by 8.18 km
- KXF8JPSuburb1.6 km by 1.64 km
- KXF8JP7A few streets320 m by 327 m
- KXF8JP79Building64 m by 65.4 m
- KXF8JP79XEntrance12.8 m by 13.1 m
- KXF8JP79XPDoorway2.56 m by 2.62 m
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