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Central Market

Kuala LumpurMalaysia

Without a code
Central Market, Kuala Lumpur, and then directions
With a code
#K3L6J-MD6CF
Said aloud
Central Market MD6CF

This code is one spot in Central Market, a cell 2.56 m by 3.41 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 Central Market is #K3L6J-MD6CF. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.41 m east to west, centred on 3°08'44.97"N, 101°41'44.03"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
Market in Kuala Lumpur
Code
#K3L6J-MD6CF
With a check character
#K3L6J-MD6CF*7
Short form
MD6CF
Cell centre
3.145824, 101.695565
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.41 m
City
Kuala Lumpur
Region
Kuala Lumpur
Country
Malaysia

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K3L6J-MD6CF. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Kuala Lumpur

Central Market MD6CF: 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 Central 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

#K3L6J-MD6CF*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. K3L6Metropolitan area40 km by 53.4 km
  2. K3L6JDistrict8 km by 10.7 km
  3. K3L6JMSuburb1.6 km by 2.13 km
  4. K3L6JMDA few streets320 m by 427 m
  5. K3L6JMD6Building64 m by 85.4 m
  6. K3L6JMD6CEntrance12.8 m by 17.1 m
  7. K3L6JMD6CFDoorway2.56 m by 3.41 m

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