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Hengshui

HebeiChina

Grid Point Code for Hengshui
With a code
#KX31P-0NP73
Said aloud
Hengshui 0NP73

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Hengshui is #KX31P-0NP73. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.70 m east to west, centred on 37°44'20.66"N, 115°41'00.55"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 Hengshui, near its centre.

Code
#KX31P-0NP73
With a check character
#KX31P-0NP73*T
Short form
0NP73
Cell centre
37.739071, 115.683487
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.70 m
Region
Hebei
Country
China
Population
522,147

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KX31P-0NP73. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Hebei

Hengshui 0NP73: 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 Hengshui. 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

#KX31P-0NP73*T. 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 42.3 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. KX31Metropolitan area40 km by 42.3 km
  2. KX31PDistrict8 km by 8.45 km
  3. KX31P0Suburb1.6 km by 1.69 km
  4. KX31P0NA few streets320 m by 338 m
  5. KX31P0NPBuilding64 m by 67.6 m
  6. KX31P0NP7Entrance12.8 m by 13.5 m
  7. KX31P0NP73Doorway2.56 m by 2.7 m

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