Never mind, I've just seen this thread (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/open-location-code/U8IvkYy8dFg) explaining that someone else has produced a C implementation!
On Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:50:32 UTC+1, Joshua Saxby wrote: > > Dear all, > > Apologies for the lack of any communications from me on this topic —a lot > has happened in the interval, including me quitting my job and enrolling at > university! > > I hope to get started on a C implementation of OLC very soon, assuming > noöne else has already started doing so. > > Regarding Shawn K. Quinn's suggestion that a command-line utility be > bundled with a C library, it's an interesting idea —I think I'd like to > focus primarily on getting a library produced first. There is no reason > then that a future command-line program can be produced which uses that > library. C is after all still the common-denominator of most systems so > having a library (and CLI) available in that language will surely be useful! > > Best Regards, > > J.S. > > On Tuesday, 9 May 2017 08:42:46 UTC+1, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: >> >> On 05/05/2017 02:37 PM, Joshua Saxby wrote: >> > Greetings, fellow open location code enthusiasts! >> > >> > I have a keen interest in creating an implementation of this system >> > in C. >> > >> > I wanted to let you folks on here know, in case anyone else was >> > already making one for C, I wouldn't want to step on anyone's toes. I >> > haven't found any C implementations so far. >> >> We seem to be missing a simple command line encoding/decoding tool, such >> that I can run something like "olcdecode 76X6PGRQ+FQ" (or something >> similar for a truncated code with a trailing latitude/longitude pair) >> and get back the appropriate latitude/longitude of at least the center >> if not the full bounding box, and something similar for the likes of >> "olcencode 29.74124 -95.46061". Given that most of Unix and other >> operating systems these days is written in C, it makes most sense to do >> this as part of a C implementation. >> >> Or do we actually have this already, and maybe I have just missed it? >> >> -- >> Shawn K. Quinn <skq...@rushpost.com> >> http://www.rantroulette.com >> http://www.skqrecordquest.com >> > -- Public site: http://www.openlocationcode.com/ Github project: https://github.com/google/open-location-code Demo site: http://plus.codes/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Plus Codes Community Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to open-location-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to open-location-code@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/open-location-code. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/open-location-code/38629004-5cbf-4d39-a5bd-36c39d513b6b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
