geohash

A package for encoding, decoding and neighbouring geohashes

Author: Oliver Keyes License: MIT Status: Stable

Description

geohashes are a way of representing latitude/longitude pairs as individual, short strings of numbers and letters. The geohash package provides tools for:

• Encoding latitude/longitude pairs into geohashes;
• Decoding geohashes into latitude/longitude pairs;
• Identifying the neighbouring geohashes of a provided geohash (or vector of geohashes).

For more information, see the geohash vignette.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Installation

To get the development version (currently recommended):

devtools::install_github("ironholds/geohash")

The latest CRAN version can be obtained via:

install.packages("geohash")