Geospatial Redis commands encode positions of objects in a single 52 bit integer, using a technique called geohash. Those 52 bit integers are:

1. Returned by GEOAENCODE as return value.
2. Used by GEOADD as sorted set scores of members.

The GEODECODE command is able to translate the 52 bit integers back into a position expressed as longitude and latitude. The command also returns the corners of the box that the 52 bit integer identifies on the earth surface, since each 52 integer actually represent not a single point, but a small area.

This command usefulness is limited to the rare situations where you want to fetch raw data from the sorted set, for example with ZRANGE, and later need to decode the scores into positions. The other obvious use is debugging.

@return

@array-reply, specifically:

The command returns an array of three elements. Each element of the main array is an array of two elements, specifying a longitude and a latitude. So the returned value is in the following form:

• center-longitude, center-latitude
• min-longitude, min-latitude
• max-longitude, max-latitude

@examples

GEOADD Sicily 13.361389 38.115556 "Palermo" 15.087269 37.502669 "Catania"
ZSCORE Sicily "Palermo"
GEODECODE 3479099956230698