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Shangluo

ShaanxiChina

Grid Point Code for Shangluo
With a code
#KJJX0-9T8KD
Said aloud
Shangluo 9T8KD

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Shangluo is #KJJX0-9T8KD. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.84 m east to west, centred on 33°52'00.01"N, 109°55'49.99"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 Shangluo, near its centre.

Code
#KJJX0-9T8KD
With a check character
#KJJX0-9T8KD*0
Short form
9T8KD
Cell centre
33.866669, 109.930552
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.84 m
Region
Shaanxi
Country
China
Population
531,696

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KJJX0-9T8KD. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Shaanxi

Shangluo 9T8KD: 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 Shangluo. 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

#KJJX0-9T8KD*0. 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 44.4 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. KJJXMetropolitan area40 km by 44.4 km
  2. KJJX0District8 km by 8.87 km
  3. KJJX09Suburb1.6 km by 1.77 km
  4. KJJX09TA few streets320 m by 355 m
  5. KJJX09T8Building64 m by 71 m
  6. KJJX09T8KEntrance12.8 m by 14.2 m
  7. KJJX09T8KDDoorway2.56 m by 2.84 m

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