Empress Market

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Empress Market is #KCLP1-8H2PM. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.10 m east to west, centred on 24°51'45.00"N, 67°01'46.05"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

Marketplace in Sindh, Pakistan

Code

#KCLP1-8H2PM

With a check character

#KCLP1-8H2PM*W

Short form

8H2PM

Cell centre

24.862499, 67.029458

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.10 m

City

Karachi

Region

Sindh

Country

Pakistan

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #KCLP1-8H2PM. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Karachi

Empress Market 8H2PM: 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 4.8 km east or west of Empress 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

#KCLP1-8H2PM*W. 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 48.5 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. PKCLPMetropolitan area40 km by 48.5 km
2. 1KCLP1District8 km by 9.7 km
3. 8KCLP18Suburb1.6 km by 1.94 km
4. HKCLP18HA few streets320 m by 388 m
5. 2KCLP18H2Building64 m by 77.6 m
6. PKCLP18H2PEntrance12.8 m by 15.5 m
7. MKCLP18H2PMDoorway2.56 m by 3.1 m

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