Xiamen
FujianChina
- With a code
#KHJG4-PPTL4- Said aloud
- Xiamen
PPTL4
What the code says
The Grid Point Code for Xiamen is #KHJG4-PPTL4. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.11 m east to west, centred on 24°28'47.21"N, 118°04'54.69"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 Xiamen, near its centre.
- Code
#KHJG4-PPTL4- With a check character
#KHJG4-PPTL4*P- Short form
PPTL4- Cell centre
- 24.479781, 118.081859
- Cell size
- 2.56 m by 3.11 m
- Region
- Fujian
- Country
- China
- Population
- 4,617,251
How to give this address
- On a sign, a form or a delivery note
The whole code,
#KHJG4-PPTL4. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.- Said aloud, in Fujian
Xiamen PPTL4: 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 4.9 km east or west of Xiamen. 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
#KHJG4-PPTL4*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 48.6 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.
- KHJGMetropolitan area40 km by 48.6 km
- KHJG4District8 km by 9.73 km
- KHJG4PSuburb1.6 km by 1.95 km
- KHJG4PPA few streets320 m by 389 m
- KHJG4PPTBuilding64 m by 77.8 m
- KHJG4PPTLEntrance12.8 m by 15.6 m
- KHJG4PPTL4Doorway2.56 m by 3.11 m
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City, region and population from GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0.