geolocation-distance-between

ES6 module to calculate distance between coordinates

Installation

# NPM
npm install geolocation-distance-between --save

# Yarn
yarn add geolocation-distance-between

Getting Started

import { getDistanceBetween } from 'geolocation-distance-between';
 
let coordinateOne = {latitude: 41.3543, longitude: 71.9665};
let coordianteTwo = {latitude: 41.3890, longitude: 70.5134};
 
let distanceBetween = getDistanceBetween(coordinateOne, coordinateTwo);
 
console.log(distanceBetween); // 121.31393500601737 KM

Documentation

getDistanceBetween(coordinateOne, coordinateTwo)

Arguments

Argument	Type
coordinateOne	Object containing latitude and longitude key/value pairs
coordinateTwo	Object containing latitude and longitude key/value pairs

** Latitude/longitude values should be degrees in decimal form

Returns

Distance between two coordinates in kilometers (KM). Distance is calculated via the Haversine formula.

Credit(s)

https://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula

License

MIT License Copyright (c) 2018 Joel Colucci