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Shorja

BaghdadBaghdad GovernorateIraq

Without a code
Shorja, Baghdad, and then directions
With a code
#J6MF7-272R9
Said aloud
Shorja 272R9

This code is one spot in Shorja, a cell 2.56 m by 2.86 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 Shorja is #J6MF7-272R9. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.86 m east to west, centred on 33°20'21.92"N, 44°24'00.77"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
Popular market in Baghdad
Code
#J6MF7-272R9
With a check character
#J6MF7-272R9*P
Short form
272R9
Cell centre
33.339421, 44.400215
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.86 m
City
Baghdad
Region
Baghdad Governorate
Country
Iraq

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #J6MF7-272R9. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Baghdad

Shorja 272R9: 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 Shorja. 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

#J6MF7-272R9*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 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. J6MFMetropolitan area40 km by 44.6 km
  2. J6MF7District8 km by 8.93 km
  3. J6MF72Suburb1.6 km by 1.79 km
  4. J6MF727A few streets320 m by 357 m
  5. J6MF7272Building64 m by 71.4 m
  6. J6MF7272REntrance12.8 m by 14.3 m
  7. J6MF7272R9Doorway2.56 m by 2.86 m

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