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Ruby Geohasher

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!

#!/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
	myLat = ARGV[0]
	myLong = ARGV[1]
end
	
if ARGV.length == 3
	myLong = ARGV[1]
	myLat = ARGV[0]
	myDate = ARGV[2]
end

dateSplit = ''
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)

#fix for the "-30 rule"
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
urlEncodedDate = (myDate - timeDelta).strftime('%Y/%m/%d')

baseURL = 'irc.peeron.com'
basePath = '/xkcd/map/data/'
fullPath = basePath + urlEncodedDate
dow = ""

Net::HTTP.start(baseURL,80) do |http|
	dow = http.get(fullPath).body
end

if !dow.include? "404 Not Found"
	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

Here's one way you could do hex to dec fraction in one line - it's "little", I'm not so sure about "neat"

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

macHasher

macHasher screenshot

Scottkuma worked feverishly to:

learn Apple OSX Programming and...
put together a geohash calculator for the Mac.

Installation:

It's a normal mac application - drag it to your Applications folder, OR just run it from inside the DMG. 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:

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!"

Known bugs:

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:

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