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Chatuchak Weekend Market

BangkokThailand

Without a code
Chatuchak Weekend Market, Bangkok, and then directions
With a code
#K6GN7-L5R8T
Said aloud
Chatuchak Weekend Market L5R8T

This code is one spot in Chatuchak Weekend Market, a cell 2.56 m by 3.32 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 Chatuchak Weekend Market is #K6GN7-L5R8T. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.32 m east to west, centred on 13°48'03.00"N, 100°33'05.03"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
Largest market in Thailand
Code
#K6GN7-L5R8T
With a check character
#K6GN7-L5R8T*L
Short form
L5R8T
Cell centre
13.800833, 100.551398
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.32 m
City
Bangkok
Region
Bangkok
Country
Thailand

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K6GN7-L5R8T. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Bangkok

Chatuchak Weekend Market L5R8T: 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 5.2 km east or west of Chatuchak Weekend 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

#K6GN7-L5R8T*L. 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 51.9 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. K6GNMetropolitan area40 km by 51.9 km
  2. K6GN7District8 km by 10.4 km
  3. K6GN7LSuburb1.6 km by 2.08 km
  4. K6GN7L5A few streets320 m by 415 m
  5. K6GN7L5RBuilding64 m by 83 m
  6. K6GN7L5R8Entrance12.8 m by 16.6 m
  7. K6GN7L5R8TDoorway2.56 m by 3.32 m

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