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Matete Market

KinshasaDemocratic Republic of the Congo

Without a code
Matete Market, Kinshasa, and then directions
With a code
#83GGN-XR3MP
Said aloud
Matete Market XR3MP

This code is one spot in Matete Market, a cell 2.56 m by 3.41 m. Every stall front and doorway in it has a code of its own.

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Matete Market is #83GGN-XR3MP. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.41 m east to west, centred on 4°23'31.99"S, 15°20'50.05"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is
Marketplace in Matete, Kinshasa
Code
#83GGN-XR3MP
With a check character
#83GGN-XR3MP*P
Short form
XR3MP
Cell centre
-4.392219, 15.347236
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.41 m
City
Kinshasa
Region
Kinshasa
Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #83GGN-XR3MP. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Kinshasa

Matete Market XR3MP: 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 5.3 km east or west of Matete Market. 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

#83GGN-XR3MP*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 53.3 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. 83GGMetropolitan area40 km by 53.3 km
  2. 83GGNDistrict8 km by 10.7 km
  3. 83GGNXSuburb1.6 km by 2.13 km
  4. 83GGNXRA few streets320 m by 426 m
  5. 83GGNXR3Building64 m by 85.2 m
  6. 83GGNXR3MEntrance12.8 m by 17 m
  7. 83GGNXR3MPDoorway2.56 m by 3.41 m

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