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Petaling Street

Kuala LumpurMalaysia

Without a code
Petaling Street, Kuala Lumpur, and then directions
With a code
#K3L6J-MMWWJ
Said aloud
Petaling Street MMWWJ

This code is one spot in Petaling Street, 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 Petaling Street is #K3L6J-MMWWJ. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.41 m east to west, centred on 3°08'40.07"N, 101°41'51.44"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
Road and neighborhood in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Code
#K3L6J-MMWWJ
With a check character
#K3L6J-MMWWJ*H
Short form
MMWWJ
Cell centre
3.144465, 101.697623
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-MMWWJ. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Kuala Lumpur

Petaling Street MMWWJ: 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 Petaling Street. 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-MMWWJ*H. 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. K3L6JMMA few streets320 m by 427 m
  5. K3L6JMMWBuilding64 m by 85.4 m
  6. K3L6JMMWWEntrance12.8 m by 17.1 m
  7. K3L6JMMWWJDoorway2.56 m by 3.41 m

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