isabella232 / vincenty

Vincenty's formulae implementation in Erlang

vincenty

• Vincenty's formulae implementation in Erlang
• Calculates distance between 2 GPS coordinates with extremely high precision

usage

$ make

test

$ make test

typecheck

$ make typecheck

example

$ ./rebar3 shell

1> vincenty:distance({0.0, 0.0}, {0.0, 0.0}).
0.0
2> vincenty:distance({42.3541165, -71.0693514}, {40.7791472, -73.9680804}).
298.396186
3> % in miles
3> vincenty:distance({42.3541165, -71.0693514}, {40.7791472, -73.9680804}, true).
185.414737

references

• https://github.com/maurycyp/vincenty