Latest revision as of 21:34, 4 May 2013

Definition

An implementation is a program that takes the method shown in The Algorithm to calculate the geohash location, presenting the user with text coordinates, a map, data for a navigation device, or some other information that facilitates reaching the geohash.

If you're looking to code your own utilities, you will need a source that provides the Dow's opening price for any given day. Details on such services are available at Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Official Implementations

Reference Implementation

A reference perl implementation is available: view download

It cannot automatically apply the 30W rule, as it doesn't take your location into consideration. If you're East of 30W, call it with the -e option and it will yield the correct results.

Any problems or issues should be mentioned to Zigdon either on the wiki or in the Geohashing IRC channel, as well as posted at Talk:Implementations.

MediaWiki Implementation

MediaWiki half-implementation (for use by template creators).

Online calculators

Eupeodes's geohashing map

An implementation using openlayers. Gives 3 x 3 hashes, with option to download as GPX. Uses geo.crox as data source. This implementation works very well on both desktop and mobile.

https://geohashing.info

See the help on the site for url parameters.

Small Hash Inquiry Tool

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Small Hash Inquiry Tool is an online tool Ekorren built to his own needs but later rebuilt to be globally usable.

Compared to the nifty tools like those for the iPhone, this one looks ugly to the end. Which was intended as it should be stripped from all colourful overhead, featuring just basic compressed information, all on one page and from everywhere.

Features:

lists up to nine nearby hashpoints per day, today and upcoming (no retro)
may be called from a bookmark without needing further input
calculates approximate distance and direction
shows the location on configurable maps on request
includes the globalhash
does it all at once, and
is so basic that it works from virtually every phone which isn't entirely incapable of browsing.

Usage information is available from its own page.

Geohashing Poster Tool

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

sample output

This tool produces a PDF document that can be printed out, similar to the ones that were available from Active Geohasher.

Posters are available from the following URL:

 http://geo.crox.net/poster/[date]_[lat]_[lon]

Minimal globalhash support is also available:

 http://geo.crox.net/poster/[date]_global

From an expedition page, you can link to the poster like this:

 [http://geo.crox.net/poster/{{FULLPAGENAME}} Poster for this expedition]

For more information, credits and feedback, see User:Crox/Poster.

Quick & Dirty Geohash Navigator

QDGN is an online tool written by Kripakko. It shows the client's location, as well as the nearest Geohash and its location, both as text and on a map.

Shotgun

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Shotgun Retro search tool. Multiple locations can be shown on the same map, using custom filters.

(Updated on 12th September 2015 to fix a 30W issue.)

Features:

Option to limit the search to an area of interest, for example an island you live on, an area close to you, or just a favourite area.
Search instances of a specific day of the year within the area, for example your birthday or anniversary.
Show all matching results on a single map using Google Maps markers.

Example uses:

View all 2015 location on La Gomera. [1]
Search for 21st May locations on the Isle of Wight since 2008. [2]
Prove that the last location on land in the Lizard Point was September 22nd, 2019. [3]

Future plans include creating a graphical selector for the graticule, and area of interest.

Note: This tool uses a private data source that needs to be manually updated, so it may be missing the last week or so of recent hashpoints.

Written by Zamzara

KML Tool

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Please double check the output - it has been tested but ...

Sourcerer has made a geohash KML calculator. The source code is available on GitHub.

This makes KML data which loads for viewing into Google Earth Desktop or similar applications like Marble. This might download as text if Google Earth Desktop is not installed.

Why?

Well there's no point having a dog and barking yourself.

Google Earth Desktop has powerful functionality and there's not much point re-inventing these features.

Usage instructions, bug reporting and feature requests are on the Sourcerer/KML tool page.

Feeds / Web Services

DJIA sources

See: Dow Jones Industrial Average for a list of data sources for the DJIA openings.

RSS/Atom

Phyzome's feed

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Subscribe to a feed that updates as soon as each day's meetup is calculable for your graticule:

https://lab.brainonfire.net/geohash.info/srv/feed.php?lat=LAT&lon=LON

If you visit the URL with no parameters, you will be prompted for your graticule coordinates.

Dow data comes from the peeron service
To view source, drop the parameters and change the extension to .phps -- this currently works for all PHP files in geohash.info/srv/

Quirks

The script estimates your timezone based upon your longitude, and uses -04:30 as the timezone of the Dow. Therefore, the update times may be off by as much as an hour or two. Shouldn't be an issue, since they'll be around midnight for most people.
For non-30W users, the feed will be empty between midnight and 9:30 AM -- this should be acceptable, since most feed readers keep entries that have dropped off the end of the feed. (This behavior may be changed in the future.)

Geo Hashing RSS

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Another RSS implementation, coded by Matty K. This one simply provides a graticule's coordinates for a given day, and gives links to both Google maps and the peeron maplet. It is recalculated at every request (so please don't hammer it, or my website will run out of bandwidths).

http://geohashing.kerwin.net.au/rss.php?ll=LAT,LON

For example, the link for San Francisco's feed is: http://geohashing.kerwin.net.au/rss.php?ll=37,-122

Notes:

If latitude/longitude are not given, it defaults to my home graticule .
~~I don't know if it supports negative zero. If there is a request to add specific support, please let me know.~~ I added specific negative zero support, and tested it with the London area. It appeared to work okay.
30W-compliance is based on the fact that I live East of 30W, and it gives me the right coordinates each day.
For any bug reports or other features requests, please email Matty
Sources can be made available by request. Although Matty might be a little ashamed of the shoddy code.

Automatic Daily Notifications

After registering, it will automatically notify users about all hashpoints as soon as they become available. Graticules are divided into 100 sub-graticules to allow users to only be notified when a hashpoint is near home, or alternatively, for all accessible hashpoints in a graticule. For more information, see the program's page.

Mobile apps and applications

Geohash Droid (Android)

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Scan to find the app in the Market

Geohash Droid, a simple Geohashing app for Android phones, can be found here in the Google Play Store as a free app. It gets the stock and hash values, plots it out, and follows you as you get closer to it. It also has wiki-updating features and can automatically figure out what graticule has the closest point to where you are. Simple, effective. There's more stuff planned, but that's later.

The project itself is hosted on GitHub. The most recent version (as per this writing) is 0.9.5.5. If you go from the Play Store (far easier), feel free to leave reviews and such. If you have something specific to say, please file an issue at the GitHub site or email CaptainSpam.

gHash for the iPhone (under development)

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

gHash for iPhone (work in progress)

This is not yet finished, but if you’re interested in learning more or being a beta tester let me know on my talk page.

Features

Closest hash point to you (even if it’s in another graticule - good for split graticules)
Integrated map
Links to either Google Maps or Apple Maps (your choice)
Links to the “Internet was here” poster for that hash point

Planned Future Features

Phone notification if the day’s hash point is within a certain distance of your location

Possible Future Features

Global hash
Let me know what you would use!

Nokia N900

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

The Tablet of Adventure is a social adventure gaming tool that supports geohashes. It is available for Maemo 5 (Nokia N900) from Maemo Extras.

With TToA you can seek geohashes in your area or create your own collaborative adventures and share them via Qaiku.

Source code is available from GitHub.

Libraries

D

Local email tool in D, for Linux

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Run this program once a day (for instance, per crontab) to get email notification whenever Google Maps indicates the daily target is nearer than a specified range. The first time around, run it from the commandline to configure. Configuration is stored in ~/.geohash/geohash.cfg. Use --help for info about commandline parameters. Source. Linux 32-bit upx compressed binary. - Ported it again to my own language. Source. Linux 32-bit binary

Erlang

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Implementations/Libraries/Erlang

Clojure

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

A geohash and globalhash library in Clojure: https://github.com/timmc/geohash

Maintained by Phyzome, who also runs an email autoresponder that uses this library.

Java

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

A Java port of the Python implementation can be found from GitHub.

Javascript

Semi-manual offline calculator

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

If you're going to be away from internet access, you'll need to compute the hash locally:

Download and extract this: https://lab.brainonfire.net/drop/geohash-offline.zip
Working example: https://lab.brainonfire.net/geohash-offline/calc.html

Notes

All you need is a Javascript-enabled browser. Tested in Firefox so far.
You will have to somehow acquire the Dow's opening value for the appropriate date; there may be a service to do this.
- Remember, if you're east of 30W, you should use the previous day's opening price, even if a new one becomes available later in the day.
The date is filled in automatically using the current timestamp.
You'll have to combine the computed fractional coordinates with your graticule coordinates yourself.
I grabbed MD5 and base conversion code from random internet sites.

k4

This implementation IS NOT 30W-compliant.

Implementations/Libraries/k4

Lua

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Geohash and globalhash calculation in Lua (almost pure, uses wget for web access): https://github.com/atenfyr/luaGH

Mathematica

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Geohashing in Mathematica

perl

Geo::Hashing on CPAN

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Reusable code library that can be used from any perl program:

Geo::Hashing Sample code

Alternative implementations

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Alternatives to the official implementation can be found at Implementations/Libraries/Perl.

Python

geohashing.py

A python script by User:Cole that can calculate geohash coordinates, given a graticule. It can calculate globalhashes as well. It is meant to be used from the command line, but is based around functions that can be used for library usage.

Code snippets

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Various code snippets can be found at Implementations/Libraries/Python.

Python package `xkcd.geohash`

This implementation IS NOT 30W-compliant.

There is Python package xkcd.geohash which is independent of the interactive coordinate calculator (but uses Google Finance as well).

Python 3 standard library

In Python 3.1 and above, an implementation of the geohashing algorithm is included in the antigravity module. Unfortunately importing the module will open a web browser.

>>>import antigravity
(opens the xkcd comic)
>>>antigravity.geohash(34,-118,b'2012-04-09-13057.57')
34.386614 -118.231675

RESTful implementation with Atom feed

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

The source for the Atom feed is available through anonymous svn here: https://staticfree.info/svn/ghfeed/

This implementation uses web.py to give simple, clean URLs. To contribute to it, please contact xxv and he can set you up with commit access.

Ruby

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Implementations/Libraries/Ruby

Rust

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Available on crates.io or GitLab.

Maintained by Kellerkind.

Shell Script

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Implementations/Libraries/Shell

C#

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

A C# command line tool, using dotnet core 3.1, where the implementation can easily be copied to other projects. Just copy two files and don't forget to mention where you found them.

Relies on geo.crox.net for the Dow Jones industrial average.

Source code and a windows binary is available on Göran Roseen's github

Maintained by Göran Roseen.

Miscellaneous utilities

Comic Creator

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

A python class to recreate the original comic, but for any given date with your own coordinates! Created by Hugo.

The comic creator has been moved to github: https://github.com/hugobuddel/geohashingcomic

It used to run as a cgi service, but these are all down now.

In the image, Dow values less than 10,000.00 are padded with leading spaces, however in the algorithm it is not so it is compliant with other the algorithms. As Tim P suggested, the comic is akin to all the bank cheques with "19__" printed on them being used in 2000. The "form" has 5+2 "boxes" because that's how Dow prices are now, but that doesn't mean it can't be different.

Bugs

The font sizes are not exactly as the original and there can still be some alignment problems.
The -0 issue is ignored. Only if you enter -0 as an integer you get an incorrect outcome. You are supposed to enter your own location as a float, up to 6 decimals, everything is okay even when you enter -0.0.

Hashie (IRC bot)

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Because the Shmulik bot and relet are not online Eupeodes created a new bot. Over the coming time features will be implemented in an attempt to fill the gap left by shmulik. Documentation can be found on Eupeodes/Hashie

Probability Calculators

These do not calculate the hash, but instead the probability of the hashpoint to land in certain areas.

Land usage - calculates the probability of certain types of land (forests, water, and the like).
Public transport probability - calculates the probability of a certain distance from public transport.

HashPlacer

The HashPlacer is a perl script that allows you to define limit boxes on a map, and will notify you via email if the day's geohash point lands in one of these boxes. This is especially useful if you define a limit box surrounding your favorite park, or your neighborhood, or even your couch. Currently the only areas supported are "boxes"... two latitude points and two longitude points define the corners of a graticule-shaped "box".

User:AeroIllini/HashPlacer

GeoHistory

GeoHistory is a perl script that outputs a [kml] file containing every historical geohash point in a specific graticule since a specified date. This can be used to get a retroactive Couch Potato Award, apply for a Curse of Unawareness Award, or simply study past geohash points.

User:AeroIllini/GeoHistory

notify-send bash tool

Linux users can use this bash script to give them desktop warnings of nearby geohashes. notify-send, bc, sed, xml_grep are needed to run the tool. It will but has not been tested within cron at the time of this writting.

Regiohashing Minesweeper Tool

These were created to help people display their regiohash achievement progress.

The original, by Hessophanes (No longer works)
A recreation, by XXOs

Mepohash

This implementation IS FULLY 30W-compliant.

Mepo is "a fast, simple, hackable OSM map viewer for mobile and desktop Linux." It also happens to be my maps app of choice. Due to it's scriptable nature, I naturally wanted to integrate geohashing into my map solution to make geohashing on my Pinephone as seamless as possible. Also, as someone newer to bash scripting this was an interesting exercise in creating an implementation from scratch. I bring to you mepo_geohash.sh, a simple 30W compliant script that opens Mepo to the detected graticule's hashpoint of the day. By moving the map and calling the script again, you can get the hashpoint for the graticule you moved to. You can view the script at this mailing list, whether it gets accepted into the main project or not I hope someone can get use out of this handy little script.

User:Hamblingreen

Broken Implementations

Note: Implementations/Broken contains a few more implementations which are known not to work any longer.

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-== Automatic GPX File Generator ==
-{{30w compliant|no=1}}
-I have modified the sample perl implementation so that it automatically generates a .gpx file which you can upload to your favourite GPS device/software. [http://discarded-ideas.org/files/geohash.pl Download here]
-Before you use the script, you need to modify it and put your own lat/lon values into the corresponding variables at the beginning.
-~~Wansti
-== GeohashGenerator for Popfly ==
-{{30w compliant|yes=1}}
-I have created a [http://www.popfly.com Popfly] block to use for creating mashups at http://www.popfly.com/users/rbuckton/GeohashGenerator.  Can be integrated with Virtual Earth, etc.
-[[User:rbuckton|rbuckton]]
-== Lazy Geohasher ==
-{{30w compliant|partial=1}}
-If you'd rather just stay at home and wait for a geohash to come to you (or perhaps have some other reason to participate in [[Geohash Hacking]]), there's a [http://www.mewlip.plus.com/geohash/geohash.pl perl script] which will search for combinations of times and DOW Jones opening prices to find when you could win the much coveted [[Couch Potato Geohash]] or [[Cubicle Geohash]] award. Just put in the ranges of values for the stock market and the time you want to wait for, and watch those CPU cycles fly! -- [mailto:thaniel.drake@gmail.com thaniel.drake@gmail.com].
-'''30w compliance statement''': This code does not use live data. Users are expected to determine from the date of the Geohash which opening value is relevant for their locale.
-<div style='font-size:90%; margin:2px 10% 2px; padding: 2px; border: 1px solid #dd0; background: #ffc'>
-'''Disclaimer:''' The author humbly requests that you do not manipulate the Dow Jones Industrial Average to ensure that a geohash collides with your address. The author accepts no responsibility for any resulting financial instability you cause by such manipulations.
-</div>
-Here is an improved implementation which sorts results by great-circle distance. Distance cutoff, length of search, and dollar spread searched may be adjusted at the command line. Days may be a positive integer count of days following today or a comma-separated list of %F datespecs. Same 30W caveats apply.
-{{30w compliant|partial=1}}
-<pre>
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
-require 5.9.2;
-use Digest::MD5 qw(md5);
-use POSIX qw(strftime);
-use Math::Trig qw(deg2rad great_circle_distance);
-die "usage: $0 lat lon orig-dow [spread] [days] [max-km]" unless @ARGV >= 3;
-my ($lat, $lon, $orig, $spread, $days, $max_km) = @ARGV;
-my ($g_lat, $g_lon) = map { int } $lat, $lon;
-$spread ||= 500; $days ||= 7; $max_km ||= 1;
-sub geohash { map { $_ / 2**64 } unpack("Q>Q>", md5(shift)) }
-sub genday {
-    my $date = shift;
-    for (($orig - $spread) * 100 .. ($orig + $spread) * 100) {
-        my $dow = sprintf("%.2f", $_ / 100);
-        ($f_lat, $f_lon) = map { substr($_, 1) } geohash("$date-$dow");
-        $gh{"$date-$dow"} = [$g_lat . $f_lat, $g_lon . $f_lon];
-    }
-}
-if ($days =~ /^\d{4,}-\d{2}-\d{2}/) { genday($_) for split(/,/, $days) }
-else { genday(strftime("%F", localtime(time + 86400 * $_))) for (1...$days) }
-sub d2r { deg2rad($_[0]), deg2rad(90 - $_[1]) }
-sub gdist { great_circle_distance(d2r($lat, $lon), d2r(@{$_[0]}), 6378) }
-printf "%s -> %f,%f (%.3fkm)\n", $_->[0], @{$gh{$_->[0]}}, $_->[1] for
-    sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
-        grep { $_->[1] < $max_km }
-            map { [$_, gdist($gh{$_})] } keys %gh;
-</pre>
-For discussion of the actual algorithm stuff hiding in there, please see the next section.
-== Alternative Perl Implementiation ==
-Because there is no way this page is complete without a lesson on endianness...
-In writing the above "lazy" script I needed to come up with a way to do the actual hashing in Perl. So, here it is pulled out from that, and using today's data from the web service:
-{{30w compliant|yes=1}}
-<pre>
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
-require 5.9.2;
-use POSIX qw(strftime);
-use LWP::Simple;
-use Digest::MD5 qw(md5);
-die "usage: $0 lat long" unless @ARGV == 2;
-my @graticule = map { int } @ARGV;
-sub dow_open {
-    my $date = strftime("%Y/%m/%d", localtime(shift));
-    get("http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/data/$date");
-}
-sub geohash {
-    map { $_ / 2**64 } unpack("Q>Q>", md5(shift));
-}
-my $today = strftime("%F", localtime);
-my $dow = dow_open(time - ($graticule[1] > -30 ? 86400 : 0));
-for (map { substr($_, 1) } geohash("$today-$dow")) {
-    print shift @graticule, $_, "\n";
-}
-</pre>
-This is the same bare output format as the shell script, for piping into your favorite formatter or google-launcher or whatever. The reason it requires Perl 5.10, however, is the code used to interpret the hash:
-<pre>
-map { $_ / 2**64 } unpack("Q>Q>", md5(shift))
-</pre>
-One unfortunate thing I have noticed across implementations is that a lot of effort has been spent converting hexadecimal into decimal. It is important to remember that MD5 hashes are 128 *bits* -- hexadecimal is just a form of representation. (It's very convenient, and we see it everywhere. But even in the original comic, it's representation.) In languages that provide the power to deal with data directly, the familiar hex representation can frequently be skipped in our quest to present numbers as decimal. This is what unpack does above (The Python implementation uses their flavor of unpack as well. I am sure Ruby has something similar).
-I point this out only because Perl neglected to get this right until recently, and so the code as written will not run on 5.8 or earlier. As they are presented in the algorithm, the two 64-bit binary fractions (think: 1/2's place, 1/4's place, 1/8's place... with the caveat that we only see the numerator digits; the denominators are all 1!) from the 128 bits of MD5 are big-endian. Sadly, the machine running Perl might be big-endian or little-endian (think: the first 8 places at the end, then the next 8 places before that, etc... it's reversed by bytes, not bits). 5.10 provides the "<" and ">" endianness specifiers for all types, even 64-bit numbers. But on 5.8, attempting to directly grab the bits will always use the machine's native arrangement, and so only work if you're in big-endian-land. Most of us (running x86 CPUs) are not. Here is one (ugly) way to deal with it:
-<pre>
-map { $_ / 2**64 } reverse unpack("QQ", reverse md5(shift));
-</pre>
-Evaluation works backward from the right; by reversing the byte string (remember how it's backwards by bytes? the word that looks forward to us looks backward to them, too), we are able to unpack two 64-bit chunks that *would* be the right numbers, but are now (since the whole thing was reversed) in the wrong order, so we flip them around again. If they weren't the same sizes, we would have had to reverse the unpack specification as well (in fact, we did; you just couldn't tell). Fun, no? So if you need to run this on 5.8, patch this in and remember to delete the "require" line.
-== Ruby Geohasher ==
-{{30w compliant|yes=1}}
-ScottKuma did this as a first excursion into Ruby.  Yes, it's long.  Yes, it's kinda clunky.  However, '''IT WORKS!'''
-Any changes, suggestions, etc. are happily accepted!
-<pre>#!/usr/bin/ruby
-#geohasher.rb
-#Written by ScottKuma
-# Can be run without any command-line arguments (and gets the current geohash for the graticule specified in myLat and myLong, below),
-# a single argument (the date in YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY/MM/DD format),
-# two arguments (the latitude & longitude "base" coordinates),
-# or three arguments (latitude & longitude "base" coordinates, followed by the date.
-require 'net/http'
-require 'date'
-require 'digest'
-myLat = "39"	# Change me to set the desired default graticule's latitude
-myLong = "-84"	# Change me to set the desired default graticule's longitude
-def hexFracToDecFrac(hexFracPart)
-	#I wish I had a neat little algorithm to do this in one line - but this works!
-	#NOTE:  do not feed the preceding "0." to this function....only the fractional part (the part after the decimal point)
-	fracLen = hexFracPart.length
-	fracPortion = hexFracPart[0..(fracLen-1)]
-	fracLen = fracPortion.length
-	myLen = (fracLen - 1)
-	sum = 0
-	for i in (0 .. myLen)
-		numSixteenths = fracPortion[i..i].to_i(16)
-		conversionFactor = (16.**(i+1)).to_f
-		conversionFactor = 1./conversionFactor
-		sum = sum + ((numSixteenths) * conversionFactor)
-	end
-	sum = sum.to_s
-	return sum[2..8]
-end
-t=Time.now
-myDate = t.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
-if ARGV.length == 1
-	myDate = ARGV[0]
-end
-if ARGV.length == 2
+= Official Implementations =
-	myLat = ARGV[0]
-	myLong = ARGV[1]
-end
-if ARGV.length == 3
-	myLong = ARGV[1]
-	myLat = ARGV[0]
-	myDate = ARGV[2]
-end
-dateSplit = ''
+{{:Implementations/Official}}
-if myDate.split('/').length == 3
-	dateSplit = myDate.split('/')
-else
-	dateSplit = myDate.split('-')
-end
-myDate = Date.civil(dateSplit[0].to_i, dateSplit[1].to_i, dateSplit[2].to_i)
+<div style="clear:both"></div>
+= Online calculators =
-#fix for the "-30 rule"
+{{:Implementations/Online}}
-fixDate = Date.civil(2008,05,25)
-timeDelta = 0
-if myLong.to_i > -30 and (myDate > fixDate)
-	puts "-30 rule in effect!"
-	timeDelta = 1
-end
-algorithmEncodedDate = myDate.to_s
+<div style="clear:both"></div>
-urlEncodedDate = (myDate - timeDelta).strftime('%Y/%m/%d')
+= Feeds / Web Services =
-baseURL = 'irc.peeron.com'
+{{:Implementations/Web services}}
-basePath = '/xkcd/map/data/'
-fullPath = basePath + urlEncodedDate
-dow = ""
-Net::HTTP.start(baseURL,80) do |http|
+<div style="clear:both"></div>
-	dow = http.get(fullPath).body
+= Mobile apps and applications =
-end
-if !dow.include? "404 Not Found"
+{{:Implementations/Apps}}
-	ghash = algorithmEncodedDate+'-'+dow
-	digest = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(ghash)
-	digest1 = digest[0..15]
-	digest2 = digest[16..31]
-	puts "(" + myLat + "." + hexFracToDecFrac(digest1) + ", " + myLong + "." + hexFracToDecFrac(digest2) + ")"
-else
-	puts "Dow information not available for "+urlEncodedDate
-end
-</pre>
-<br>Here's one way you could do hex to dec fraction in one line - it's "little", I'm not so sure about "neat"
+<div style="clear:both"></div>
-<pre>
+= Libraries =
-def hexFracToDecFrac hexFracPart
-  hexFracPart.split('').inject((cf=1)-1){|sum,c|sum+ c.to_i(16)/(cf<<=4).to_f}.to_s[2..8]
-end
-</pre>
-==macHasher==
+{{:Implementations/Libraries}}
-{{30w compliant|yes=1}}
-[[image:macHasher.png|thumb|macHasher screenshot]]
-Scottkuma worked feverishly to:
-# learn Apple OSX Programming and...
-# put together a [http://scottkuma.net/geohashing/macHasher.dmg geohash calculator for the Mac.]
-===Installation:===
+<div style="clear:both"></div>
-It's a normal mac application - drag it to your Applications folder, OR just run it from inside the DMG.
+= Miscellaneous utilities =
-I '''think''' I compiled it as a Universal Binary.  If you can't run it on a particular system and/or version of OSX, please let me know.
-===Usage:===
+{{:Implementations/Utilities}}
-Start by entering your graticule's Lat/Long numbers.  The given numbers are for Cincinnati, Ohio.
-For today's graticule, just click "Generate!"  For dates in the past (or the near-future, for Saturday & Sunday graticules), select the date on the calendar, then click "Generate!"
+<div style="clear:both"></div>
+= Broken Implementations =
-===Known bugs:===
+'''Note: [[Implementations/Broken]] contains a few more implementations which are known not to work any longer.'''
-* '''Requires''' a valid network connection; locks pretty good when one doesn't exist.
-* does not calculate east of -30 correctly for dates ''prior'' to 5/27/2008
-* window doesn't lock its size like I thought it would...
-===Planned enhancements:===
+[[Category:Geohashing guide]]
-* will allow for saving of a known "home" location
-* will calculate distance & bearing to a known location
-* will calculate same for adjacent graticules to find a closer geohash

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