Node S2 Geometry Typescript

An extensive port of google's s2 geometry library written in TypeScript.

The library has no runtime dependencies. Cell IDs use native JavaScript bigint (v4+).

Npm package is nodes2ts.

Requires Node.js 20+.

Breaking Changes in v4

S2CellId.id is now bigint (was Long).

// v3
import Long from 'long';
const id = new S2CellId(Long.fromString('-6533045114107854848'));
id.id.toString(); // "-6533045114107854848"  (signed)

// v4 — Long import removed, signed strings still work in constructor
const id = new S2CellId('-6533045114107854848');
id.id.toString(); // "11913698959601696768"  (unsigned)
id.toSignedDecimalString(); // "-6533045114107854848"  (compat helper)

Other changed APIs:

Symbol	v3 type	v4 type
S2CellId.id	Long	bigint
S2CellId constructor	Long | string	bigint | string
S2CellId.fromFacePosLevel pos	Long	bigint
S2CellId.pos()	Long	bigint
S2CellId.lowestOnBit()	Long	bigint
S2CellId.lowestOnBitForLevel()	Long	bigint
S2CellId.toIJOrientation()	Long	bigint
S2CellUnion.initFromIds()	Long[] | string[]	bigint[] | string[]
S2CellUnion.leafCellsCovered()	Long	bigint

See MIGRATION.md for a full migration guide and operator cheat-sheet.

Tests

This project is backed by 80+ 1-by-1 comparison tests between this implementation and the original one.

When implementing a not-yet-ported feature, please generate the needed tests by modifiying the java code within java-test-creator folder

Currently not ported

• S2Loop
• S2Polygon
• S2Polyline

Extra code / differences

As already mentioned the lib is almost a 1:1 porting from the java's implementation.

The only exceptions are due javascript limitations such as

• methods and properties can't share the same name
• cant have multiple constructor
• cant overload methods.

The lib also exports a Utils class which contains the following:

export declare class Utils {
    /**
     * Calculates a region covering a circle
     * NOTE: The current implementation uses S2Cap while S2Loop would be better (S2Loop is not implemented yet)
     * @param center
     * @param radiusInKM
     * @param points the number of points to calculate. The higher the better precision
     * @returns {S2Region}
     */
    static calcRegionFromCenterRadius(center: S2LatLng, radiusInKM: number, points?: number): S2Region;
}

Also, for some classes, an extra toGEOJSON method is provided to let developer easily inspect boundaries of cells/points.

Samples

Basic usage

import { S2Cell, S2CellId, S2LatLng } from 'nodes2ts';

const cellId = S2CellId.fromPoint(
  S2LatLng.fromDegrees(10 /* latitude */, 11 /* longitude */).toPoint(),
);

console.log(cellId.id); // 11532778376507094629n
console.log(typeof cellId.id); // 'bigint'
console.log(cellId.toToken()); // stable hex token

Previous / next cell

const nextCell = cellId.next();
const prevCell = cellId.prev();

Get all neighbors at the current level

const neighbors = cellId.getAllNeighbors(cellId.level());

Signed / unsigned decimal migration helpers

import {
  S2CellId,
  signedDecimalToUnsigned,
  unsignedToSignedDecimal,
} from 'nodes2ts';

const legacySigned = '-6533045114107854848';

const cell = new S2CellId(legacySigned);
console.log(cell.id); // 11913698959601696768n
console.log(cell.toSignedDecimalString()); // '-6533045114107854848'
console.log(cell.toUnsignedDecimalString()); // '11913698959601696768'

console.log(signedDecimalToUnsigned(legacySigned)); // 11913698959601696768n
console.log(unsignedToSignedDecimal(cell.id)); // '-6533045114107854848'

Construct from a legacy signed decimal explicitly

const legacyCell = S2CellId.fromSignedDecimalString('-6533045114107854848');
console.log(legacyCell.id); // 11913698959601696768n
console.log(legacyCell.toToken()); // same canonical token as before

Rebuild from a token

const fromToken = S2CellId.fromToken('89c25c');
console.log(fromToken.id); // bigint
console.log(fromToken.toToken()); // '89c25c'

Initialize a union from bigint ids

import { S2CellUnion } from 'nodes2ts';

const union = new S2CellUnion();
union.initFromIds([
  0x89c25c0000000000n,
  0x89c25c4000000000n,
]);

Visualize an S2 cell as GeoJSON

const cell = new S2Cell(cellId);
console.log(cell.toGEOJSON());
// copy the output and paste it into https://geojson.io/

Contributing

The library was initially conceived to be used in both server and client env leveraging TypeScript peculiarities.

If you wish to contribute please make sure, wherever applicable, to create a tiny merge request to ease the code review of the proposed changes.

Want to connect with the author?

If you wish to contact the library author for business (or any other) proposal you can write an email to vekexasia at gmail dot com.