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Viktualienmarkt

MunichBavariaGermany

Without a code
Viktualienmarkt, Munich, and then directions
With a code
#PXN55-FJMNW
Said aloud
Viktualienmarkt FJMNW

This code is one spot in Viktualienmarkt, a cell 2.56 m by 2.28 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 Viktualienmarkt is #PXN55-FJMNW. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.28 m east to west, centred on 48°08'07.06"N, 11°34'34.00"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
Daily food market and a square in the center of Munich, Germany
Code
#PXN55-FJMNW
With a check character
#PXN55-FJMNW*N
Short form
FJMNW
Cell centre
48.135295, 11.576110
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.28 m
City
Munich
Region
Bavaria
Country
Germany

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PXN55-FJMNW. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Munich

Viktualienmarkt FJMNW: 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 3.6 km east or west of Viktualienmarkt. 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

#PXN55-FJMNW*N. 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 35.7 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. PXN5Metropolitan area40 km by 35.7 km
  2. PXN55District8 km by 7.13 km
  3. PXN55FSuburb1.6 km by 1.43 km
  4. PXN55FJA few streets320 m by 285 m
  5. PXN55FJMBuilding64 m by 57.1 m
  6. PXN55FJMNEntrance12.8 m by 11.4 m
  7. PXN55FJMNWDoorway2.56 m by 2.28 m

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