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Bessarabskyi Market

KyivUkraine

Without a code
Bessarabskyi Market, Kyiv, and then directions
With a code
#PT7W2-HW8D7
Said aloud
Bessarabskyi Market HW8D7

This code is one spot in Bessarabskyi Market, a cell 2.56 m by 2.18 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 Bessarabskyi Market is #PT7W2-HW8D7. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.18 m east to west, centred on 50°26'32.49"N, 30°31'17.85"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
Building in Ukraine
Code
#PT7W2-HW8D7
With a check character
#PT7W2-HW8D7*9
Short form
HW8D7
Cell centre
50.442359, 30.521626
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.18 m
City
Kyiv
Region
Kyiv
Country
Ukraine

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #PT7W2-HW8D7. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Kyiv

Bessarabskyi Market HW8D7: 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 3.4 km east or west of Bessarabskyi 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

#PT7W2-HW8D7*9. 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 34 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. PT7WMetropolitan area40 km by 34 km
  2. PT7W2District8 km by 6.81 km
  3. PT7W2HSuburb1.6 km by 1.36 km
  4. PT7W2HWA few streets320 m by 272 m
  5. PT7W2HW8Building64 m by 54.4 m
  6. PT7W2HW8DEntrance12.8 m by 10.9 m
  7. PT7W2HW8D7Doorway2.56 m by 2.18 m

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