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Ruby implementation of the haversine distance formula
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# Haversine Distance Calculation | |
# | |
# Accepts two coordinates in the form | |
# of a tuple. I.e. | |
# geo_a Array(Num, Num) | |
# geo_b Array(Num, Num) | |
# miles Boolean | |
# | |
# Returns the distance between these two | |
# points in either miles or kilometers | |
def haversine_distance(geo_a, geo_b, miles=false) | |
# Get latitude and longitude | |
lat1, lon1 = geo_a | |
lat2, lon2 = geo_b | |
# Calculate radial arcs for latitude and longitude | |
dLat = (lat2 - lat1) * Math::PI / 180 | |
dLon = (lon2 - lon1) * Math::PI / 180 | |
a = Math.sin(dLat / 2) * | |
Math.sin(dLat / 2) + | |
Math.cos(lat1 * Math::PI / 180) * | |
Math.cos(lat2 * Math::PI / 180) * | |
Math.sin(dLon / 2) * Math.sin(dLon / 2) | |
c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a)) | |
d = 6371 * c * (miles ? 1 / 1.6 : 1) | |
end |
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