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Dubai Spice Souk

DubaiEmirate of DubaiUnited Arab Emirates

Without a code
Dubai Spice Souk, Dubai, and then directions
With a code
#JH301-PNGK2
Said aloud
Dubai Spice Souk PNGK2

This code is one spot in Dubai Spice Souk, a cell 2.56 m by 3.09 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 Dubai Spice Souk is #JH301-PNGK2. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.09 m east to west, centred on 25°16'03.07"N, 55°17'49.19"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
Traditional market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Code
#JH301-PNGK2
With a check character
#JH301-PNGK2*J
Short form
PNGK2
Cell centre
25.267519, 55.296998
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.09 m
City
Dubai
Region
Emirate of Dubai
Country
United Arab Emirates

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #JH301-PNGK2. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Dubai

Dubai Spice Souk PNGK2: 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 4.8 km east or west of Dubai Spice Souk. 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

#JH301-PNGK2*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 48.3 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. JH30Metropolitan area40 km by 48.3 km
  2. JH301District8 km by 9.66 km
  3. JH301PSuburb1.6 km by 1.93 km
  4. JH301PNA few streets320 m by 387 m
  5. JH301PNGBuilding64 m by 77.3 m
  6. JH301PNGKEntrance12.8 m by 15.5 m
  7. JH301PNGK2Doorway2.56 m by 3.09 m

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