📏 cheapruler in Go: fast geodesic measurements
“A collection of very fast approximations to common geodesic measurements. Useful for performance-sensitive code that measures things on a city scale.
The approximations are based on an FCC-approved formula of ellipsoidal Earth projection.
For distances under 500 kilometers and not on the poles,
the results are very precise — within 0.1% margin of error
compared to Vincenti formulas,
and usually much less for shorter distances.”
Here is an example of doing a distance measurement in kilometers, with a ruler Latitude of 32.8351:
cr, _ := NewCheapruler(32.8351, "kilometers")pointA := []float64{-96.920341, 32.838261}pointB := []float64{-96.920421, 32.838295}dist := cr.Distance(pointA, pointB)fmt.Println(dist)// Output: 0.008385790760648736
Based on Vladimir Agafonkin‘s JavaScript library cheapruler
ISC License