Khone Phapheng Falls

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Khone Phapheng Falls is #K6C55-PC37W. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.32 m east to west, centred on 13°57'34.98"N, 105°59'11.97"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

Waterfall on the Mekong River in Laos

Code

#K6C55-PC37W

With a check character

#K6C55-PC37W*W

Short form

PC37W

Cell centre

13.959717, 105.986657

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.32 m

Region

Champasak Province

Country

Laos

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K6C55-PC37W. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Champasak Province

Khone Phapheng Falls PC37W: 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 5.2 km east or west of Khone Phapheng Falls. 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

#K6C55-PC37W*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 51.9 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. 5K6C5Metropolitan area40 km by 51.9 km
2. 5K6C55District8 km by 10.4 km
3. PK6C55PSuburb1.6 km by 2.07 km
4. CK6C55PCA few streets320 m by 415 m
5. 3K6C55PC3Building64 m by 83 m
6. 7K6C55PC37Entrance12.8 m by 16.6 m
7. WK6C55PC37WDoorway2.56 m by 3.32 m

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