Haversine is a formula to calculate the great-circle distance between two points
Haversine is Ruby library for haversine a formula to calculate distance between two GEO Location. Because Earth is not flat!
Inspired by Landon Cox at http://www.esawdust.com/blog/gps/files/HaversineFormulaInRuby.html And http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
You can totally install it as a Gem
Haversine is readily available as a Ruby gem.
$ [sudo] gem install haversine_distance
The Haversine source is available at GitHub:
$ git clone git://github.com/jirapong/haversine.git
Feedback & Patch are welcome.
And how to use
require 'haversine' lat_a = 51.885 lng_a = 0.235 lat_b = 49.008 lng_b = 2.549 km = Haversine.distance(lat_a, lng_a, lat_b, lng_b);
This library is written by Jirapong Nanta (@jirapong)
Boring legal stuff
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