🌐 Geohash calculation in PHP
The PHP Geohash Generator is a simple yet powerful tool that converts geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) into a compact and highly useful geohash string. Perfect for efficiently storing, searching, and managing spatial data in your applications! 🚀
A geohash is an algorithm that divides the Earth into progressively smaller "boxes" and encodes the coordinates as a text string.
- In short: A geohash is a single string representation of a specific location on Earth.
- Benefits:
- Compact and human-readable format.
- Easy to compare: if two locations are close, their geohashes share the same prefix.
- Ideal for fast searches and spatial grouping.
- Easy to use: Simply provide latitude and longitude, and get a geohash in return.
- Precision-focused: The algorithm supports up to 12-character geohashes for highly accurate encoding.
- Perfect for location-based applications: Whether storing spatial data, searching for locations, or displaying maps, this tool gets the job done efficiently.
Requires PHP 8.3+
composer require igzard/php-geohashuse Igzard\Geohash\Geohash;
// Generate a geohash for a specific location with latitude and longitude coordinates.
echo Geohash::generate(47.497913, 19.040236); // input: Budapest coordinates | output: u2mw1q8xmssz
// Generate a geohash with custom precision (default is 12), latitude interval, and longitude interval.
echo Geohash::generate(47.497913, 19.040236, [
'precision' => 10,
'latitude_interval' => [
'min' => -70,
'max' => 10,
],
'longitude_interval' => [
'min' => -80,
'max' => 170,
],
]);Thank you for considering contributing to the Geohash PHP library! 🎉 Here is some tooling to help you get started:
✅ Run Code quality check:
make code-quality👷 Run PHPUnit tests:
make phpunit🎨 Run php-cs-fixer:
make php-cs-fixer🔥 Run phpstan:
make phpstan🚀 Install dependencies with composer:
make composer-installGeohash PHP was created by Gergely Ignácz under the MIT license.