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cdipaolo / HaversinFormula.go
Created April 15, 2015 01:31
Golang functions to calculate the distance in meters between long,lat points on Earth.
// haversin(θ) function
func hsin(theta float64) float64 {
return math.Pow(math.Sin(theta/2), 2)
}
// Distance function returns the distance (in meters) between two points of
// a given longitude and latitude relatively accurately (using a spherical
// approximation of the Earth) through the Haversin Distance Formula for
// great arc distance on a sphere with accuracy for small distances
//