LocaPoint conversion library for Ruby

A ruby library for conversion between LocaPoint and latitude/longuitude notation.

What is LocaPoint?

LocaPoint is the state-of-the-art location pointer that can express any location of the world, only with 12 letters. (quoted from www.locapoint.com)

Install

% gem install locapoint

Examples

require 'rubygems'
require 'locapoint'

Locapoint.decode("SD9.XC4.ER9.CY4")
> [35.6586477189174, 139.745663667239]

Locapoint.encode(35.658648,139.745664)
> "SD9.XC4.ER9.CY4"

See Also

• Project Website: locapoint.rubyforge.org

• RubyForge Project Page: www.rubyforge.org/projects/locapoint

• Subversion Repository: rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/?root=locapoint

• LocaPoint Official Site: www.locapoint.com

• LocaPoint Specifications: www.locapoint.com/en/spec.html

Author

Copyright © 2006 Yohji Shidara, under MIT License.

Yohji Shidara <dara@shidara.net>