pluscodes

An implementation of Google's Open Location Code algorithm forked from the openlocationcode==1.0.1 package.

Motivation

The Python implementation of Google's Open Location Code is not particularly Pythonic with respect to its naming conventions. The core code is in both openlocationcode and this package are pure Python with no dependencies outside of the standard library.

We hope to presents geocoordinates using a more consistent API. A longer term goal to more efficiently handle bulk Plus Code assignments and further more readily enable Plus Code lookup and categorization.

Installation

This package is available in PyPi, so simply

pip install pluscodes

Usage

The PlusCode constructor provides the main entry point for generating the string Plus Code (encoding) and geographic area boundary ("decoding").

from pluscodes import PlusCode, Area, Point

googleplex = PlusCode(37.4223041570954, -122.08410042965134)

assert googleplex.code == '849VCWC8+W9'

# Get the geocoordinate bounds for the length 10 Plus Code area.
assert googleplex.area == Area(
    sw=Point(lat=37.42225, lon=-122.084125),
    ne=Point(lat=37.422375, lon=-122.084),
)

# Decode a Plus Code into a geographic region.
r_googleplex = PlusCode('849VCWC8+W9')

assert googleplex.code == r_googleplex.code
assert googleplex.area == r_googleplex.area

This package also provides the original openlocationcode==1.0.1 package as a subpackage for use-cases that wish to adhere to openlocationcode's API.

import pluscodes
from pluscodes import openlocationcode

expected_code = '6FG22222+22'
plus = pluscodes.encode(0.0, 0.0)
olc = openlocationcode.encode(0.0, 0.0)

assert (plus == expected_code) and (olc == expected_code)

print(openlocationcode.decode('6FG22222+22'))
# [0.0, 0.0, 0.000125, 0.000125, 6.25e-05, 6.25e-05, 10]

print(pluscodes.decode('6FG22222+22'))
# Area(sw=Point(lat=0.0, lon=0.0), ne=Point(lat=0.000125, lon=0.000125))

Differences from openlocationcode

This package does not automatically validate or normalize inputs. For example, it is assumed that all latitude values are in [-90, 90] and all longitude values are in [-180, 180].

Moreover, the encoding and decoding APIs are combined in the PlusCode class, with the decoding API producing a simple dataclass consisting of two Point instances.