Haversine (haversine v0.1.0) View Source

Calculate great circle distances (shortest travel distance on the surface of a spherical Earth) given a two longitude-latitude pairs. This is an implementation of the Haversine formula

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Types

coordinates()

Functions

distance(list)

Returns the great circle distance in meters along a linestring defined by the list of {longitude, latitude} pairs.

distance(arg1, arg2)

Returns the great circle distance in meters between two points in the form of {longitude, latitude}.

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coordinates()

Specs

coordinates() :: {float(), float()}

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distance(list)

Specs

distance([coordinates()]) :: float()

Returns the great circle distance in meters along a linestring defined by the list of {longitude, latitude} pairs.

Examples

iex> Haversine.distance([
...>  {-96.796667, 32.775833},
...>  {126.967583, 37.566776},
...>  {151.215158, -33.857406},
...>  {55.274180, 25.197229},
...>  {6.942661, 50.334057},
...>  {-97.635926, 30.134442}])
44728827.84910634

iex> Haversine.distance([])
0.0

iex> Haversine.distance([{-96.796667, 32.775833}])
0.0

distance(arg1, arg2)

Specs

distance(coordinates(), coordinates()) :: float()

Returns the great circle distance in meters between two points in the form of {longitude, latitude}.

Examples

iex> Haversine.distance({-105.343, 39.984}, {-105.534, 39.123})
97129.22118967834

iex> Haversine.distance({-74.00597, 40.71427}, {-70.56656, -33.42628})
8251609.780264794