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Decode encoded strings

Open felunka opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

I wanted to create way points on routes (not stops) and can not find out how the string part is encoded and what it does.

Every way point look like this:

3 m 4
   1 m 2
      1 d 28.1957393
      2 d 57.2104923
   3 s 0x46c1b7e963d7a1d7:0x7d8ebf076b76f8e0

The first two values are obviously the lat and lon, but what is the string? For me these are just two 64bit hex numbers, but what do they do?

felunka avatar Jan 30 '19 18:01 felunka

I have no idea what the string is. I imagine that it identifies the place name in one way or another? I'm guessing google looks it up in some db and returns the human-readable address it refers to. If this is what's happening, it would indeed be useful to know of some way to do this same lookup. But at the moment, I really have nothing more than these speculative ideas.

david-r-edgar avatar Jan 13 '21 02:01 david-r-edgar