Documentation on how to create geohash yourself

[fabyeah]

I'm using geocollection.add to create new documents, but editing happens inside a cloud function, so I'd like to pass a geohash to it, so the required data structure can be created there. Would be great if the README included info on how to create a geohash from latlng yourself with the included tools.

How do I do that?

[fabyeah]

I'm using the latlon-geohash package now for that, but I assume this functionality is already included in geofirestore. Is it accessible?

[Michael Solati]

So the point of the library isn't quite to surface the "magic" of geohashes, it's designed to simplify the add/query experience for you. However it has a dependency called geofirestore-core which give you a more bare bone library, and geofirestore-core requires geokit which is what hashes the coordinates.

So if you have geofirestore installed, geokit should be installed as a dependency, and you can use it to hash a coordinate like...

import * as geokit from 'geokit';

const coordinates = {lat: 41.3083,  lng: -72.9279};

const hash = geokit.hash(coordinates); // hash === 'drk4urzw2c'

[fabyeah]

Thanks, that works! 👍