Compatible coordinates

If you ever worked with coordinates on the web you probably know that there's no "standard" way of passing them around to libraries etc.

Examples that this solves:

• Google maps wants { lat, lng } and [latitude, longitude]
• SMHI (Swedish weather) wants { lat, lon }
• cheap-ruler wants [longitude, latitude] (reversed!!!!)

Or versose, because tab completion and readability { latitude, longitude }

Install

yarn add compatible-coordinates

npm install --save compatible-coordinates

Usage

const CompatibleCoordinates = require('compatible-coordinates')
 
const home = new CompatibleCoordinates(59, 18)
 
console.log(home.latitude) //=> 59
console.log(home.lat) //=> 59
console.log(home[0]) //=> 59
 
console.log(home.longitude) //=> 18
console.log(home.lng) //=> 18
console.log(home.lon) //=> 18
console.log(home[1]) //=> 18
 
console.log(home) //=> [59, 18]

Reversed tuple

For some reason, cheap-ruler expects the coordinates in [longitude, latitude], to reverse the tuple without changing the behaviour of the other properties, you can use .reversed()

const homeReversed = home.reversed()
 
console.log(home[0]) //=> 59
console.log(homeReversed[0]) //=> 18
 
console.log(homeReversed.longitude) // => 18

Credits

@linusu for coming up with this clever but simple solution ⚡️