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Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by Pamar on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:56AM (#19519668)
See also this http://www.drdobbs.com/database/space-filling-curves-in-geos... (Dr.Dobbs Journal, 1999).

It explains how to easily search for "points no more than X km from Y" in a DB query without having to actually calculate distances.

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Re:Why Bother with What Three Words? by thanatropism on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:33PM (#19524292)
I wonder if space filling curves are used in the Python GIS stack for radius queries.
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