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Jiaxing

ZhejiangChina

Grid Point Code for Jiaxing
With a code
#L9HWF-4CRLP
Said aloud
Jiaxing 4CRLP

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Jiaxing is #L9HWF-4CRLP. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.94 m east to west, centred on 30°45'07.89"N, 120°45'00.05"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 Jiaxing, near its centre.

Code
#L9HWF-4CRLP
With a check character
#L9HWF-4CRLP*G
Short form
4CRLP
Cell centre
30.752191, 120.750013
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.94 m
Region
Zhejiang
Country
China
Population
1,180,000

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #L9HWF-4CRLP. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Zhejiang

Jiaxing 4CRLP: 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 4.6 km east or west of Jiaxing. 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

#L9HWF-4CRLP*G. 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 45.9 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.

  1. L9HWMetropolitan area40 km by 45.9 km
  2. L9HWFDistrict8 km by 9.18 km
  3. L9HWF4Suburb1.6 km by 1.84 km
  4. L9HWF4CA few streets320 m by 367 m
  5. L9HWF4CRBuilding64 m by 73.5 m
  6. L9HWF4CRLEntrance12.8 m by 14.7 m
  7. L9HWF4CRLPDoorway2.56 m by 2.94 m

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