Slightly offtopic - coordinate conversions

[Dirk Koopman]

On 13/07/11 07:52, Peter Edwards wrote:
> On 13 July 2011 07:16, Peter Sergeant<pete at clueball.com>  wrote:
>
>> I've been playing around with Google Maps recently, and noticed that
>> they've started using hashes of some coordinates:
>>
>> latlng: 52.54296 -0.308166
>> hnear : 0x4877f21032e242f5:0x805cb103d71d5051
>>
>> latlng: 51.411586,-0.300893
>> hnear : 0x47d8a00baf21de75:0x52963a5addd52a99
>>
>>

Hex representation of the double?

Dirk