"""Snap an arbitrary lat/lon to a stable ~4-square-mile grid cell. The grid is defined by fixed latitude rows (~2 miles tall). Within each row the longitude step is scaled by cos(latitude) so cells stay roughly square (~4 sq mi) at every latitude instead of getting skinny toward the poles. Cell ids are deterministic, so the same physical location always maps to the same cache file. """ import math # 1 degree of latitude ~= 69 miles. ~2 miles -> ~0.029 deg gives a ~4 sq mi cell. LAT_STEP = 1.0 / 34.5 # ~= 0.02899 deg (~2.0 miles) def _lon_step(center_lat: float) -> float: """Longitude degrees that span ~2 miles at the given latitude.""" c = math.cos(math.radians(center_lat)) c = max(c, 0.05) # clamp near the poles to avoid a blow-up return LAT_STEP / c def snap(lat: float, lon: float) -> dict: """Return the grid cell (id + center + span) containing (lat, lon).""" i = math.floor(lat / LAT_STEP) center_lat = (i + 0.5) * LAT_STEP lon_step = _lon_step(center_lat) j = math.floor(lon / lon_step) center_lon = (j + 0.5) * lon_step # Approximate cell dimensions in miles for display. height_mi = LAT_STEP * 69.0 width_mi = lon_step * 69.0 * math.cos(math.radians(center_lat)) return { "id": f"{i}_{j}", "center_lat": round(center_lat, 5), "center_lon": round(center_lon, 5), "lat_step": LAT_STEP, "lon_step": lon_step, "bounds": { "south": round(i * LAT_STEP, 5), "north": round((i + 1) * LAT_STEP, 5), "west": round(j * lon_step, 5), "east": round((j + 1) * lon_step, 5), }, "area_sq_mi": round(height_mi * width_mi, 2), } def in_north_america(lat: float, lon: float) -> bool: """Rough bounding box for the US (incl. Alaska/Hawaii) and Canada.""" return 14.0 <= lat <= 84.0 and -172.0 <= lon <= -52.0