Grid Point Code

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Mueang Nonthaburi

NonthaburiThailand

With a code
#K6GNF-CCK14
Said aloud
Mueang Nonthaburi CCK14

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Mueang Nonthaburi is #K6GNF-CCK14. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.32 m east to west, centred on 13°51'38.74"N, 100°30'53.21"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

The point used is the one GeoNames records for Mueang Nonthaburi, near its centre.

Code
#K6GNF-CCK14
With a check character
#K6GNF-CCK14*5
Short form
CCK14
Cell centre
13.860760, 100.514780
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.32 m
Region
Nonthaburi
Country
Thailand
Population
254,375

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K6GNF-CCK14. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Nonthaburi

Mueang Nonthaburi CCK14: 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 Mueang Nonthaburi. 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

#K6GNF-CCK14*5. 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. K6GNFDistrict8 km by 10.4 km
  3. K6GNFCSuburb1.6 km by 2.08 km
  4. K6GNFCCA few streets320 m by 415 m
  5. K6GNFCCKBuilding64 m by 83 m
  6. K6GNFCCK1Entrance12.8 m by 16.6 m
  7. K6GNFCCK14Doorway2.56 m by 3.32 m

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