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Buôn Ma Thuột

Dak LakVietnam

Grid Point Code for Buôn Ma Thuột
With a code
#K5H44-R5CX8
Said aloud
Buôn Ma Thuột R5CX8

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Buôn Ma Thuột is #K5H44-R5CX8. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.34 m east to west, centred on 12°40'02.90"N, 108°02'15.86"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

The point used is the one GeoNames records for Buôn Ma Thuột, near its centre.

Code
#K5H44-R5CX8
With a check character
#K5H44-R5CX8*W
Short form
R5CX8
Cell centre
12.667473, 108.037740
Cell size
2.56 m by 3.34 m
Region
Dak Lak
Country
Vietnam
Population
434,256

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #K5H44-R5CX8. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Dak Lak

Buôn Ma Thuột R5CX8: 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 Buôn Ma Thuột. 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

#K5H44-R5CX8*W. 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 52.1 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. K5H4Metropolitan area40 km by 52.1 km
  2. K5H44District8 km by 10.4 km
  3. K5H44RSuburb1.6 km by 2.09 km
  4. K5H44R5A few streets320 m by 417 m
  5. K5H44R5CBuilding64 m by 83.4 m
  6. K5H44R5CXEntrance12.8 m by 16.7 m
  7. K5H44R5CX8Doorway2.56 m by 3.34 m

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