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When you are operating on geographical data you’ll use latitude and longitude to specify a location somewhere on earth. To look up some associated information or if you want to do neighborhood searches you could create R-trees, quad-trees or similar spatial datastructures to make them efficient. Some people are using Geohashes instead because then the [...]