Paste any geohash string and decode it to GPS coordinates — plus 26 other formats including Google Maps links.
Paste your coordinates and convert to all 27 formats instantly.
Open GPSwitch ConverterA geohash is a compact string representation of a geographic location, invented by Gustavo Niemeyer in 2008. It works by recursively dividing the world into a grid and encoding the grid cell as a base-32 string. Longer strings produce smaller cells and more precision.
Example: u09tunqu is the Eiffel Tower area at approximately 40-metre precision. The full 12-character geohash gives sub-metre precision.
Count the characters: 4 characters = city-level (~40 km), 8 characters = building level (~38 metres), 12 characters = sub-centimetre. GPSwitch shows the bounding box dimensions alongside the centre coordinates.
Yes. Paste decimal coordinates and the geohash appears in the results panel at the precision level you select (default: 8 characters for ~38-metre precision).
A geohash represents a rectangular cell, not a single point. Decoding returns the centre of that cell plus the cell boundaries. The centre is used as the representative coordinate.
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