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Gikomba market

NairobiNairobi CountyKenya

Without a code
Gikomba market, Nairobi, and then directions
With a code
#81X6G-35J7D
Said aloud
Gikomba market 35J7D

This code is one spot in Gikomba market, a cell 2.56 m by 3.42 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 Gikomba market is #81X6G-35J7D. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.42 m east to west, centred on 1°17'10.97"S, 36°50'28.95"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
Open-air market in Nairobi
Code
#81X6G-35J7D
With a check character
#81X6G-35J7D*7
Short form
35J7D
Cell centre
-1.286381, 36.841375
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.42 m
City
Nairobi
Region
Nairobi County
Country
Kenya

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #81X6G-35J7D. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Nairobi

Gikomba market 35J7D: 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 Gikomba 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

#81X6G-35J7D*7. 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 53.4 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. 81X6Metropolitan area40 km by 53.4 km
  2. 81X6GDistrict8 km by 10.7 km
  3. 81X6G3Suburb1.6 km by 2.14 km
  4. 81X6G35A few streets320 m by 427 m
  5. 81X6G35JBuilding64 m by 85.5 m
  6. 81X6G35J7Entrance12.8 m by 17.1 m
  7. 81X6G35J7DDoorway2.56 m by 3.42 m

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