maidenhead 1.2.1

Maidenhead Locator, Lat Lon coordinate convertor

Maidenhead <-> Lat/Lon

maidenhead provides a simple, yet effective location hashing algorithm. Maidenhead allows global location precision down to 750m

Maidenhead provides 4 levels of increasing accuracy

Level	Precision
1	World
2	Regional
3	Metropolis
4	City

Install

pip install -e .

Examples

All examples assume first doing

import maidenhead as mh

lat lon to Maidenhead locator

mh.toMaiden(lat, lon, level) 

returns a char (len = lvl*2)

Maidenhead locator to lat lon

mh.toLoc('AB01cd') 

take any string and returns topleft lat, lon of Maidenhead grid square.

Command Line

Python:

Maidenhead.py 65 -148

Julia:

./Maidenhead.jl 65 -148