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Mercado Central

ValenciaValencian CommunitySpain

Without a code
Mercado Central, Valencia, and then directions
With a code
#HX5PK-96R7P
Said aloud
Mercado Central 96R7P

This code is one spot in Mercado Central, a cell 2.56 m by 2.64 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 Mercado Central is #HX5PK-96R7P. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.64 m east to west, centred on 39°28'24.60"N, 0°22'44.21"W, 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
Valencian Art Nouveau work. Cultural property in Valencia (Spain)
Code
#HX5PK-96R7P
With a check character
#HX5PK-96R7P*9
Short form
96R7P
Cell centre
39.473499, -0.378947
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.64 m
City
Valencia
Region
Valencian Community
Country
Spain

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #HX5PK-96R7P. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Valencia

Mercado Central 96R7P: 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 4.1 km east or west of Mercado Central. 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

#HX5PK-96R7P*9. 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 41.2 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. HX5PMetropolitan area40 km by 41.2 km
  2. HX5PKDistrict8 km by 8.25 km
  3. HX5PK9Suburb1.6 km by 1.65 km
  4. HX5PK96A few streets320 m by 330 m
  5. HX5PK96RBuilding64 m by 66 m
  6. HX5PK96R7Entrance12.8 m by 13.2 m
  7. HX5PK96R7PDoorway2.56 m by 2.64 m

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