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Bến Thành Market

Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam

Without a code
Bến Thành Market, Ho Chi Minh City, and then directions
With a code
#K6P23-L4C8F
Said aloud
Bến Thành Market L4C8F

This code is one spot in Bến Thành Market, a cell 2.56 m by 3.36 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 Bến Thành Market is #K6P23-L4C8F. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.36 m east to west, centred on 10°46'21.09"N, 106°41'52.84"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
Market in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Code
#K6P23-L4C8F
With a check character
#K6P23-L4C8F*7
Short form
L4C8F
Cell centre
10.772525, 106.698010
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.36 m
City
Ho Chi Minh City
Region
Ho Chi Minh City
Country
Vietnam

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K6P23-L4C8F. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Ho Chi Minh City

Bến Thành Market L4C8F: 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 Bến Thành 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

#K6P23-L4C8F*7. 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 52.5 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. K6P2Metropolitan area40 km by 52.5 km
  2. K6P23District8 km by 10.5 km
  3. K6P23LSuburb1.6 km by 2.1 km
  4. K6P23L4A few streets320 m by 420 m
  5. K6P23L4CBuilding64 m by 84 m
  6. K6P23L4C8Entrance12.8 m by 16.8 m
  7. K6P23L4C8FDoorway2.56 m by 3.36 m

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