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map-obfuscation
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This package obfuscates coordinates to improve user privacy. The code has some detailed comments if you want to learn more about the inner workings of this algorithm.
var mapObfuscation = require("map-obfuscation");//Include MapObfuscation
console.log(mapObfuscation.wgs2sd(12.345, 67.890));//Print obfuscated coordinates in the console
You can use the deltaMultiplier
parameter to control the amount of obfuscation you want.
var mapObfuscation = require("map-obfuscation");//Include MapObfuscation
console.log(mapObfuscation.wgs2sd(12.345, 67.890, 0.5));//Print obfuscated coordinates in the console
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This package obfuscates coordinates to improve user privacy.
The npm package map-obfuscation receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, map-obfuscation popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that map-obfuscation demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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