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Balogun Market

LagosLagos StateNigeria

Without a code
Balogun Market, Lagos, and then directions
With a code
#JP8FX-MKL18
Said aloud
Balogun Market MKL18

This code is one spot in Balogun Market, a cell 2.56 m by 3.40 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 Balogun Market is #JP8FX-MKL18. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.40 m east to west, centred on 6°27'21.20"N, 3°23'06.52"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 Nigeria
Code
#JP8FX-MKL18
With a check character
#JP8FX-MKL18*T
Short form
MKL18
Cell centre
6.455889, 3.385144
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.40 m
City
Lagos
Region
Lagos State
Country
Nigeria

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #JP8FX-MKL18. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Lagos

Balogun Market MKL18: 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 Balogun 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

#JP8FX-MKL18*T. 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 53.1 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. JP8FMetropolitan area40 km by 53.1 km
  2. JP8FXDistrict8 km by 10.6 km
  3. JP8FXMSuburb1.6 km by 2.12 km
  4. JP8FXMKA few streets320 m by 425 m
  5. JP8FXMKLBuilding64 m by 85 m
  6. JP8FXMKL1Entrance12.8 m by 17 m
  7. JP8FXMKL18Doorway2.56 m by 3.4 m

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