Pak Khlong Talat

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Pak Khlong Talat is #K6GN1-X9N42. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.32 m east to west, centred on 13°44'31.99"N, 100°29'47.63"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

Flower market in Bangkok, Thailand

Code

#K6GN1-X9N42

With a check character

#K6GN1-X9N42*8

Short form

X9N42

Cell centre

13.742220, 100.496563

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, #K6GN1-X9N42. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Bangkok

Pak Khlong Talat X9N42: 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 Pak Khlong Talat. 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

#K6GN1-X9N42*8. 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. NK6GNMetropolitan area40 km by 51.9 km
2. 1K6GN1District8 km by 10.4 km
3. XK6GN1XSuburb1.6 km by 2.08 km
4. 9K6GN1X9A few streets320 m by 415 m
5. NK6GN1X9NBuilding64 m by 83 m
6. 4K6GN1X9N4Entrance12.8 m by 16.6 m
7. 2K6GN1X9N42Doorway2.56 m by 3.32 m

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