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Simon Willnauer updated LUCENE-1815:
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    Priority: Minor  (was: Major)

I don't think this shouldn't be major!

> Geohash encode/decode floating point problems
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1815
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1815
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: contrib/spatial
>    Affects Versions: 2.9
>            Reporter: Wouter Heijke
>            Priority: Minor
>
> i'm finding the Geohash support in the spatial package to be rather 
> unreliable.
> Here is the outcome of a test that encodes/decodes the same lat/lon and 
> geohash a few times.
> the format:
> action geohash=(latitude, longitude)
> the result:
> encode u173zq37x014=(52.3738007,4.8909347)
> decode u173zq37x014=(52.373799999999996,4.890934)
> encode u173zq37rpbw=(52.373799999999996,4.890934)
> decode u173zq37rpbw=(52.373799999999996,4.8909329999999995)
> encode u173zq37qzzy=(52.373799999999996,4.8909329999999995)
> if I now change to the google code implementation:
> encode u173zq37x014=(52.3738007,4.8909347)
> decode u173zq37x014=(52.37380061298609,4.890934377908707)
> encode u173zq37x014=(52.37380061298609,4.890934377908707)
> decode u173zq37x014=(52.37380061298609,4.890934377908707)
> encode u173zq37x014=(52.37380061298609,4.890934377908707)
> Note the differences between the geohashes in both situations and the 
> lat/lon's!
> Now things get worse if you work on low-precision geohashes:
> decode u173=(52.0,4.0)
> encode u14zg429yy84=(52.0,4.0)
> decode u14zg429yy84=(52.0,3.999999)
> encode u14zg429ywx6=(52.0,3.999999)
> and google:
> decode u173=(52.20703125,4.5703125)
> encode u17300000000=(52.20703125,4.5703125)
> decode u17300000000=(52.20703125,4.5703125)
> encode u17300000000=(52.20703125,4.5703125)
> We are using geohashes extensively and will now use the google code version 
> unfortunately.

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