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Dezhou

ShandongChina

Grid Point Code for Dezhou
With a code
#KX32T-0GJD5
Said aloud
Dezhou 0GJD5

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Dezhou is #KX32T-0GJD5. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.71 m east to west, centred on 37°26'47.76"N, 116°22'01.44"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 Dezhou, near its centre.

Code
#KX32T-0GJD5
With a check character
#KX32T-0GJD5*P
Short form
0GJD5
Cell centre
37.446601, 116.367068
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.71 m
Region
Shandong
Country
China
Population
679,535

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KX32T-0GJD5. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Shandong

Dezhou 0GJD5: 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 4.2 km east or west of Dezhou. 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

#KX32T-0GJD5*P. 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 42.4 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. KX32Metropolitan area40 km by 42.4 km
  2. KX32TDistrict8 km by 8.48 km
  3. KX32T0Suburb1.6 km by 1.7 km
  4. KX32T0GA few streets320 m by 339 m
  5. KX32T0GJBuilding64 m by 67.9 m
  6. KX32T0GJDEntrance12.8 m by 13.6 m
  7. KX32T0GJD5Doorway2.56 m by 2.71 m

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