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Add VincentyDistance algorithm #205

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frewsxcv opened this issue Apr 19, 2018 · 0 comments

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frewsxcv commented Apr 19, 2018 •

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We currently have two distance algorithms:

geo::algorithm::euclidean_distance
- Flat surface distance (Pythagorean theorem)
geo::algorithm::haversine_distance
- Spherical distance (Haversine)

We could also use an ellipsoidal distance algorithm. Vincenty seems to be popular:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenty%27s_formulae

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This was referenced May 5, 2018

Implement spherical distance #47

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Implement VincentyDistance and VincentyLength #213

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          Merge #213

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213: Implement VincentyDistance and VincentyLength r=urschrei a=frewsxcv

Fixes #205

Based off this implementation: https://github.com/janantala/GPS-distance/blob/master/java/Distance.java

Co-authored-by: Corey Farwell <coreyf@rwell.org>

bors bot closed this as completed in #213

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