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Banjarbaru

South KalimantanIndonesia

Grid Point Code for Banjarbaru
With a code
#7PL4D-8XKK7
Said aloud
Banjarbaru 8XKK7

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Banjarbaru is #7PL4D-8XKK7. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.41 m east to west, centred on 3°26'26.15"S, 114°50'11.42"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 Banjarbaru, near its centre.

Code
#7PL4D-8XKK7
With a check character
#7PL4D-8XKK7*C
Short form
8XKK7
Cell centre
-3.440598, 114.836506
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.41 m
Region
South Kalimantan
Country
Indonesia
Population
293,332

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #7PL4D-8XKK7. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in South Kalimantan

Banjarbaru 8XKK7: 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 Banjarbaru. 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

#7PL4D-8XKK7*C. 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. 7PL4Metropolitan area40 km by 53.3 km
  2. 7PL4DDistrict8 km by 10.7 km
  3. 7PL4D8Suburb1.6 km by 2.13 km
  4. 7PL4D8XA few streets320 m by 427 m
  5. 7PL4D8XKBuilding64 m by 85.3 m
  6. 7PL4D8XKKEntrance12.8 m by 17.1 m
  7. 7PL4D8XKK7Doorway2.56 m by 3.41 m

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