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Re:Show HN: ProximityHash – Geohashes in Proximity by stumptownkiwi on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @08:00PM (#14510855)
This has existed for years:

http://www.geodna.org/

Demo here: http://www.geodna.org/docs/google-maps.html

GeoHash is cool - but the hashes don't lend themselves well to stemming for use in text-based searching. This improves on that.

Full disclosure, I am responsible for GeoDNA.org

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Re:Show HN: ProximityHash – Geohashes in Proximity by ashwinnair on Friday June 09, 2017 @08:22AM (#14520859)
> hashes don't lend themselves well to stemming for use in text-based searching

I didn't get this completely. :)

This was something that hadn't been solved using geohashes. Intention was to just bring out 'geohash'y of solution to proximity search.

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