Lomé Grand Market

What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Lomé Grand Market is #JP9FT-3J475. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.40 m east to west, centred on 6°07'32.20"N, 1°13'31.46"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

Large market place in the city of Lomé, the capital of Togo

Code

#JP9FT-3J475

With a check character

#JP9FT-3J475*J

Short form

3J475

Cell centre

6.125610, 1.225405

Cell size

2.56 m by 3.40 m

City

Lomé

Region

Maritime

Country

Togo

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #JP9FT-3J475. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Lomé

Lomé Grand Market 3J475: 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 5.3 km east or west of Lomé Grand 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

#JP9FT-3J475*J. 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 53.1 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. FJP9FMetropolitan area40 km by 53.1 km
2. TJP9FTDistrict8 km by 10.6 km
3. 3JP9FT3Suburb1.6 km by 2.13 km
4. JJP9FT3JA few streets320 m by 425 m
5. 4JP9FT3J4Building64 m by 85 m
6. 7JP9FT3J47Entrance12.8 m by 17 m
7. 5JP9FT3J475Doorway2.56 m by 3.4 m

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