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pdxhash and working with spatial data using sql

Overview After analyzing the data, it would appear that we can use the geohash algorithm to geographically locate things in the Portland area by a short combination of letters and numbers. Because we only care about locations in and around … Continue reading

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pdxhash: an implementation of #pdxtags using the geohash algorithm

I never learned about geohashes in school, but I ran across the term when I was figuring out how to do fast GIS operations in the Google App Engine cloud computing platfor Continue reading

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