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Xuhui

ShanghaiChina

Grid Point Code for Xuhui
With a code
#L9HMN-96484
Said aloud
Xuhui 96484

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Xuhui is #L9HMN-96484. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.93 m east to west, centred on 31°11'45.39"N, 121°26'49.49"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 Xuhui, near its centre.

Code
#L9HMN-96484
With a check character
#L9HMN-96484*W
Short form
96484
Cell centre
31.195941, 121.447081
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.93 m
Region
Shanghai
Country
China
Population
1,109,800

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #L9HMN-96484. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Shanghai

Xuhui 96484: 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 Xuhui. 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

#L9HMN-96484*W. 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 45.7 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. L9HMMetropolitan area40 km by 45.7 km
  2. L9HMNDistrict8 km by 9.14 km
  3. L9HMN9Suburb1.6 km by 1.83 km
  4. L9HMN96A few streets320 m by 366 m
  5. L9HMN964Building64 m by 73.1 m
  6. L9HMN9648Entrance12.8 m by 14.6 m
  7. L9HMN96484Doorway2.56 m by 2.93 m

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