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Bình Tây Market

Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam

Without a code
Bình Tây Market, Ho Chi Minh City, and then directions
With a code
#K6P24-5DD2C
Said aloud
Bình Tây Market 5DD2C

This code is one spot in Bình Tây 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 Bình Tây Market is #K6P24-5DD2C. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.36 m east to west, centred on 10°44'57.73"N, 106°39'03.85"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
Market in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Code
#K6P24-5DD2C
With a check character
#K6P24-5DD2C*8
Short form
5DD2C
Cell centre
10.749370, 106.651069
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, #K6P24-5DD2C. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Ho Chi Minh City

Bình Tây Market 5DD2C: 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 Bình Tây 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

#K6P24-5DD2C*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 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. K6P24District8 km by 10.5 km
  3. K6P245Suburb1.6 km by 2.1 km
  4. K6P245DA few streets320 m by 420 m
  5. K6P245DDBuilding64 m by 84 m
  6. K6P245DD2Entrance12.8 m by 16.8 m
  7. K6P245DD2CDoorway2.56 m by 3.36 m

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