starboard-nz/vincenty

Calculate the distance between 2 points on Earth's surface using Vincenty's formula.

vincenty Go module

Calculate the distance between 2 points on Earth's surface using Vincenty's formula.

This is a Go re-implementation of the vincenty Python library.

Usage

package main

import (
        "fmt"
        "github.com/starboard-nz/vincenty"
)

func main() {
        Dunedin := vincenty.LatLng{Latitude: -45.8726082, Longitude: 170.3870355 }
        Alexandra := vincenty.LatLng{Latitude: -45.2426447, Longitude: 169.0977066 }

	dist := vincenty.Inverse(Dunedin, Alexandra)
	fmt.Printf("Distance: %vkm\n", dist.Kilometres())
}

References

• https://github.com/maurycyp/vincenty/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenty's_formulae
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System

vincenty's Issues

Update module's declared path to be @ gitlab.com - [merged]

In GitLab by @simeonmiteff on Apr 7, 2020, 16:08

Merges bug/module-delcared-path -> master

This should fix the following issue:

$ go get
go: finding module for package gitlab.com/xerra/common/vincenty
go: downloading gitlab.com/xerra/common/vincenty v0.0.0-20200402121257-fca13d747c21
go: found gitlab.com/xerra/common/vincenty in gitlab.com/xerra/common/vincenty v0.0.0-20200402121257-fca13d747c21
go: <some_other_module_REDACTED> imports
        gitlab.com/xerra/common/vincenty: gitlab.com/xerra/common/[email protected]: parsing go.mod:
        module declares its path as: vincenty
                but was required as: gitlab.com/xerra/common/vincenty