pygeohash 1.0.0

Python module for interacting with geohashes

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Pygeohash is a Python module that provides functions for decoding and encoding geohashes to and from latitude and longitude coordinates, and doing basic calculations and approximations with them.

It is based off of Leonard Norrgård’s [geohash](https://github.com/vinsci/geohash) module, but aims to add more functionality while supporting python 3 as well.

Usage

To use pygeohash:

import pygeohash as pgh

pgh.encode(42.6, -5.6) # >>> ‘ezs42e44yx96’

pgh.encode(42.6, -5.6, precision=5) # >>> ‘ezs42’

pgh.decode(‘ezs42’) # >>> (‘42.6’, ‘-5.6’)

pgh.geohash_approximate_distance(‘shi3u’, ‘sh83n’) # >>> 625441

Installation

Pygeohash has no requirements outside of the python stdlib, and aims to keep it that way if at all possible. To install:

pip install pygeohash

Liscense

A portion of this codebase (geohash.py), is from Leonard Norrgard’s module, which carries the following license:

Copyright (C) 2015 [Leonard Norrgard]([e-mail])

Geohash is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Geohash is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with Geohash. If not, see [gnu.org](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/).

This derivative work likewise carries the same license:

Copyright (C) 2015 [Will McGinnis]([e-mail])