Souq al Arabi

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Souq al Arabi is #JL8L8-JH43K. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.29 m east to west, centred on 15°36'03.58"N, 32°31'30.00"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

Main market area of central Khartoum

Code

#JL8L8-JH43K

With a check character

#JL8L8-JH43K*H

Short form

JH43K

Cell centre

15.600995, 32.525000

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.29 m

City

Khartoum

Region

Khartoum

Country

Sudan

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #JL8L8-JH43K. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Khartoum

Souq al Arabi JH43K: 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 5.1 km east or west of Souq al Arabi. 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

#JL8L8-JH43K*H. 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 51.5 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. LJL8LMetropolitan area40 km by 51.5 km
2. 8JL8L8District8 km by 10.3 km
3. JJL8L8JSuburb1.6 km by 2.06 km
4. HJL8L8JHA few streets320 m by 412 m
5. 4JL8L8JH4Building64 m by 82.3 m
6. 3JL8L8JH43Entrance12.8 m by 16.5 m
7. KJL8L8JH43KDoorway2.56 m by 3.29 m

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