geo-distance

Common JS module for calculating and converting Earth distances using correct great-circle distance formula.

Installation

npm install geo-distance

Notice

The lat/lon coordinates were flipped until v0.1.2. This is fixed in v0.2.0. Please be aware, when updating. Discussion here.

Usage example

For JavaScripters:

var Distance = require('geo-distance');

console.log('' + Distance('50 km').human_readable('customary'));

// https://www.latlong.net/place/oslo-norway-14195.html: Oslo, Norway, Latitude and longitude coordinates are: 59.911491, 10.757933
var Oslo = {
  lat: 59.914,
  lon: 10.752
};
var Berlin = {
  lat: 52.523,
  lon: 13.412
};
var OsloToBerlin = Distance.between(Oslo, Berlin);

console.log('' + OsloToBerlin.human_readable());
if (OsloToBerlin > Distance('800 km')) {
  console.log('Nice journey!');
}

For CoffeeScripters:

Distance = require 'geo-distance'

console.log "#{ Distance('50 km').human_readable 'customary' }"

Oslo =
  lat: 59.914
  lon: 10.752
Berlin =
  lat: 52.523
  lon: 13.412
OsloToBerlin = Distance.between Oslo, Berlin

console.log "#{ OsloToBerlin.human_readable() }"
console.log 'Nice journey!' if OsloToBerlin > Distance '800 km'

Other modules

If you want to work with GeoJSON or maybe just want to calculate distance as a number (fx. kilometers or miles), it is possible to use the @turf/distance npm module.

License

The image example/earth.jpg is a rescaled version of a NASA image in the public domain. All other files are released under the MIT license:

Copyright (c) 2011 Bjarke Walling <[e-mail]>

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