Hey there. I realize I'm resurecting an old post, but there's been no 
further work done on making a library for Hilbert curves/maps. I'm indeed 
in the case where I need to use it for geohashing. What is the critical bug 
you're talking about in your git ?

Cheers,

Jonathan

Le lundi 14 juin 2010 14:14:37 UTC+2, Chris Dew a écrit :
>
> Thanks.  Use cases include 2d searches.  Points which are near in 2d 
> space are likely to be near on the 1d Hilbert curve. 
>
> *FROM CASUAL INSPECTION* it looks like the sections of Hilbert curve 
> which correspond to a rectangle all lie within  the minimum Hilbert 
> curve point of any of the rectangle's corners and the maximum.  That 
> distance range will include more area than just the area of the 
> rectangle, but it may be a useful optimisation.  Collision detection, 
> satnav landmarks, etc. 
>
> I would be interested if anyone has proven this to be the case. 
>
> Also, http://xkcd.com/195/ 
>
> It could also be used to encode two numbers into one, though half 
> their precision will be lost. 
>
> All the best, 
>
> Chris. 
>
> On Jun 14, 9:47 am, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 07:22, Chris Dew <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > > Hi, I'm just announcing the availability of a little bit of Javascript 
> > > code for transforming 2d coordinates to 1d Hilbert curve distances and 
> > > back again. 
> > 
> > Neat stuff, Chris, but what is the use case? Apart from drawing pretty 
> > pictures, that is.

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