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Anarkali Bazaar

LahorePunjabPakistan

Without a code
Anarkali Bazaar, Lahore, and then directions
With a code
#KMHC9-C39M5
Said aloud
Anarkali Bazaar C39M5

This code is one spot in Anarkali Bazaar, a cell 2.56 m by 2.91 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 Anarkali Bazaar is #KMHC9-C39M5. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.91 m east to west, centred on 31°34'00.04"N, 74°18'58.03"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
Neighbourhood in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Code
#KMHC9-C39M5
With a check character
#KMHC9-C39M5*X
Short form
C39M5
Cell centre
31.566678, 74.316119
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.91 m
City
Lahore
Region
Punjab
Country
Pakistan

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KMHC9-C39M5. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Lahore

Anarkali Bazaar C39M5: 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 4.6 km east or west of Anarkali Bazaar. 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

#KMHC9-C39M5*X. 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 45.5 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. KMHCMetropolitan area40 km by 45.5 km
  2. KMHC9District8 km by 9.11 km
  3. KMHC9CSuburb1.6 km by 1.82 km
  4. KMHC9C3A few streets320 m by 364 m
  5. KMHC9C39Building64 m by 72.8 m
  6. KMHC9C39MEntrance12.8 m by 14.6 m
  7. KMHC9C39M5Doorway2.56 m by 2.91 m

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