Relative External Links

• GEOHEX TOOLS
• GEOHEX DEMO
• GEOHEX WIKI(Japanese)
• ABOUTS US

About Author

• sa2da(GeoHex author)
• hal_sk_e(GeoHex Gem author)

Activities

• 20/Nov: GeoHex Gem 1.0.0 is released

GEOHEX DESCRIPTION

The GeoHex is a latitude/longitude encoding system invented by sa2da.
• GeoHex divides geometry regions into hexagonal grid and set an unique identifier to each grid. It supports only Japan region so far.
• The coding idea is opened under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.1 Japan Lisence.
• GeoHex Documents: http://github.com/geohex/geohex-docs
• GeoHex Original Wiki(Japanese): http://geogames.net/labs/geohex
• GeoHex Demo: http://geogames.net/hex/
• Other GeoHex Libraries: http://github.com/geohex/

INSTALL

sudo gem install geohex

If you can not install by remote , download from rubyforge.

QUICK START

require 'geohex'
GeoHex.encode(35.647401,139.716911,1)
=> '132KpuG'
GeoHex.decode('0dMV')
=> [24.338279000000004,124.1577708779443,7]