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Yancheng

JiangsuChina

Grid Point Code for Yancheng
With a code
#L95C8-6HCN9
Said aloud
Yancheng 6HCN9

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Yancheng is #L95C8-6HCN9. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.86 m east to west, centred on 33°21'27.03"N, 120°09'26.29"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 Yancheng, near its centre.

Code
#L95C8-6HCN9
With a check character
#L95C8-6HCN9*3
Short form
6HCN9
Cell centre
33.357508, 120.157302
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.86 m
Region
Jiangsu
Country
China
Population
1,615,717

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #L95C8-6HCN9. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Jiangsu

Yancheng 6HCN9: 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 4.5 km east or west of Yancheng. 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

#L95C8-6HCN9*3. 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 44.6 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.

  1. L95CMetropolitan area40 km by 44.6 km
  2. L95C8District8 km by 8.93 km
  3. L95C86Suburb1.6 km by 1.79 km
  4. L95C86HA few streets320 m by 357 m
  5. L95C86HCBuilding64 m by 71.4 m
  6. L95C86HCNEntrance12.8 m by 14.3 m
  7. L95C86HCN9Doorway2.56 m by 2.86 m

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