Geohash/geohash.py

"""
Copyright (C) 2008 Leonard Norrgard <leonard.norrgard@gmail.com>
Copyright (C) 2015 Leonard Norrgard <leonard.norrgard@gmail.com>

This file is part of Geohash.

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
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
"""
from math import log10

#  Note: the alphabet in geohash differs from the common base32
#  alphabet described in IETF's RFC 4648
#  (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648)
__base32 = '0123456789bcdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz'
__decodemap = { }
for i in range(len(__base32)):
    __decodemap[__base32[i]] = i
del i

def decode_exactly(geohash):
    """
    Decode the geohash to its exact values, including the error
    margins of the result.  Returns four float values: latitude,
    longitude, the plus/minus error for latitude (as a positive
    number) and the plus/minus error for longitude (as a positive
    number).
    """
    lat_interval, lon_interval = (-90.0, 90.0), (-180.0, 180.0)
    lat_err, lon_err = 90.0, 180.0
    is_even = True
    for c in geohash:
        cd = __decodemap[c]
        for mask in [16, 8, 4, 2, 1]:
            if is_even: # adds longitude info
                lon_err /= 2
                if cd & mask:
                    lon_interval = ((lon_interval[0]+lon_interval[1])/2, lon_interval[1])
                else:
                    lon_interval = (lon_interval[0], (lon_interval[0]+lon_interval[1])/2)
            else:      # adds latitude info
                lat_err /= 2
                if cd & mask:
                    lat_interval = ((lat_interval[0]+lat_interval[1])/2, lat_interval[1])
                else:
                    lat_interval = (lat_interval[0], (lat_interval[0]+lat_interval[1])/2)
            is_even = not is_even
    lat = (lat_interval[0] + lat_interval[1]) / 2
    lon = (lon_interval[0] + lon_interval[1]) / 2
    return lat, lon, lat_err, lon_err

def decode(geohash):
    """
    Decode geohash, returning two strings with latitude and longitude
    containing only relevant digits and with trailing zeroes removed.
    """
    lat, lon, lat_err, lon_err = decode_exactly(geohash)
    # Format to the number of decimals that are known
    lats = "%.*f" % (max(1, int(round(-log10(lat_err)))) - 1, lat)
    lons = "%.*f" % (max(1, int(round(-log10(lon_err)))) - 1, lon)
    if '.' in lats: lats = lats.rstrip('0')
    if '.' in lons: lons = lons.rstrip('0')
    return lats, lons

def encode(latitude, longitude, precision=12):
    """
    Encode a position given in float arguments latitude, longitude to
    a geohash which will have the character count precision.
    """
    lat_interval, lon_interval = (-90.0, 90.0), (-180.0, 180.0)
    geohash = []
    bits = [ 16, 8, 4, 2, 1 ]
    bit = 0
    ch = 0
    even = True
    while len(geohash) < precision:
        if even:
            mid = (lon_interval[0] + lon_interval[1]) / 2
            if longitude > mid:
                ch |= bits[bit]
                lon_interval = (mid, lon_interval[1])
            else:
                lon_interval = (lon_interval[0], mid)
        else:
            mid = (lat_interval[0] + lat_interval[1]) / 2
            if latitude > mid:
                ch |= bits[bit]
                lat_interval = (mid, lat_interval[1])
            else:
                lat_interval = (lat_interval[0], mid)
        even = not even
        if bit < 4:
            bit += 1
        else:
            geohash += __base32[ch]
            bit = 0
            ch = 0
    return ''.join(geohash)