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Victoria Park Market

AucklandAuckland RegionNew Zealand

Grid Point Code for Victoria Park Market
Without a code
Victoria Park Market, Auckland, and then directions
With a code
#6P2C5-8R9RD
Said aloud
Victoria Park Market 8R9RD

This code is one spot in Victoria Park Market, a cell 2.56 m by 2.74 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 Victoria Park Market is #6P2C5-8R9RD. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.74 m east to west, centred on 36°50'54.62"S, 174°45'14.37"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
Historic building in Auckland
Code
#6P2C5-8R9RD
With a check character
#6P2C5-8R9RD*6
Short form
8R9RD
Cell centre
-36.848506, 174.753992
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.74 m
City
Auckland
Region
Auckland Region
Country
New Zealand

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #6P2C5-8R9RD. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Auckland

Victoria Park Market 8R9RD: 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 4.3 km east or west of Victoria Park 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

#6P2C5-8R9RD*6. 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 42.8 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. 6P2CMetropolitan area40 km by 42.8 km
  2. 6P2C5District8 km by 8.55 km
  3. 6P2C58Suburb1.6 km by 1.71 km
  4. 6P2C58RA few streets320 m by 342 m
  5. 6P2C58R9Building64 m by 68.4 m
  6. 6P2C58R9REntrance12.8 m by 13.7 m
  7. 6P2C58R9RDDoorway2.56 m by 2.74 m

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