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Shilin Night Market

TaipeiTaiwan

Without a code
Shilin Night Market, Taipei, and then directions
With a code
#LC91J-H2MX9
Said aloud
Shilin Night Market H2MX9

This code is one spot in Shilin Night Market, a cell 2.56 m by 3.10 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 Shilin Night Market is #LC91J-H2MX9. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.10 m east to west, centred on 25°05'11.79"N, 121°31'31.39"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
Night market in Taipei
Code
#LC91J-H2MX9
With a check character
#LC91J-H2MX9*H
Short form
H2MX9
Cell centre
25.086609, 121.525386
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.10 m
City
Taipei
Region
Taipei
Country
Taiwan

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #LC91J-H2MX9. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Taipei

Shilin Night Market H2MX9: 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 Shilin Night 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

#LC91J-H2MX9*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 48.4 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. LC91Metropolitan area40 km by 48.4 km
  2. LC91JDistrict8 km by 9.68 km
  3. LC91JHSuburb1.6 km by 1.94 km
  4. LC91JH2A few streets320 m by 387 m
  5. LC91JH2MBuilding64 m by 77.4 m
  6. LC91JH2MXEntrance12.8 m by 15.5 m
  7. LC91JH2MX9Doorway2.56 m by 3.1 m

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