The Algorithm
From Geohashing
Revision as of 14:50, 22 May 2008 by imported>Matt (Just a simple start to the page, as near as I can figure out the algorithm.)
- The current date and the daily opening of the Dow Jones Industrial Average are fed through the MD5 cryptographic algorithm.
- The resulting string is split in half and converted to decimal values less than one.
- The decimal values are tagged onto the end of the integer values of any given graticule to produce the geohash target.
