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Tung Choi Street

Yau Tsim Mong DistrictHong Kong

Without a code
Tung Choi Street, and then directions
With a code
#KHFF4-1RH0R
Said aloud
Tung Choi Street 1RH0R

This code is one spot in Tung Choi Street, a cell 2.56 m by 3.16 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 Tung Choi Street is #KHFF4-1RH0R. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.16 m east to west, centred on 22°19'16.52"N, 114°10'12.57"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
Street situated between south of Sai Yeung Choi Street and Fa Yuen Street in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Code
#KHFF4-1RH0R
With a check character
#KHFF4-1RH0R*W
Short form
1RH0R
Cell centre
22.321256, 114.170158
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.16 m
Region
Yau Tsim Mong District
Country
Hong Kong

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KHFF4-1RH0R. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Yau Tsim Mong District

Tung Choi Street 1RH0R: 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 Tung Choi Street. 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

#KHFF4-1RH0R*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 49.4 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. KHFFMetropolitan area40 km by 49.4 km
  2. KHFF4District8 km by 9.89 km
  3. KHFF41Suburb1.6 km by 1.98 km
  4. KHFF41RA few streets320 m by 395 m
  5. KHFF41RHBuilding64 m by 79.1 m
  6. KHFF41RH0Entrance12.8 m by 15.8 m
  7. KHFF41RH0RDoorway2.56 m by 3.16 m

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