Questions tagged [haversine]

The haversine formula is an equation important in navigation, giving great-circle distances between two points on a sphere from their longitudes and latitudes.

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haversine distance - MySQL and PHP return different results for same formula

distance (straight) from: (lat) 48.73233 (long) 2.36618 to: lat() 48.84647 (long) 2.41026 equals some: 13096.16 meters If I use PHP formula, I get proper result. But when I translate same PHP formula directly into MySQL query - I get 5904.2757…
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Which one is better haversine or pythagorean?

I have mysql query to calculate distance between given longitudes and latitude within 50 meter radius. Here I want to know that by performance, speed and distance accuracy wise which one is better, haversine or pythagorean?
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Haversine formula in CakePHP 2.0 paginate fields not working

This is my first post on this site, so please be kind. I have no trouble making this work using the find() method, but when I try to run it using the paginate component, no luck. I am simply trying to run a Haversine formula in the fields options…
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Using haversine formula, result too high

I have a question that I have spent too many hours trying to resolve. I am using de Haversine formula to calculate the distance between two points, but the code that I'm using is giving me values that are too high for a distance like KM. This is the…
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Distance Matrix Haversine

I am working on a data frame that looks like this : lat lon id_zone 0 40.0795 4.338600 1 45.9990 4.829600 2 45.2729 2.882000 3 45.7336 4.850478 4 45.6981 5.043200 I'm trying to make a…
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Haversine Function - Python

I am trying to write a code where I am creating a haversine function to calculate the distance of a dataset containing different properties from the nearest hospital using their geolocation and this is what my code looks like: code snippet However,…
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I have 2 dataframes with latitude and longitude in each. I want to find the 5 nearest points from df2 for each point in df1

I tried a row by row approach, like this: library(geosphere) best <- 1000000 for ( var1 in df1 ) { findpoint <- c(df1$longitude[var1], df1$latitude[var1]) for ( var2 in df2 ) { basepoint <- c(df2$longitude[var2],…
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Why do I have an error when the global name has been defined?

I am attempting to use python to calculate the distance and velocity between time ordered coordinates following the steps in the answer here. Towards the end of the code, I encounter an error which says the global name has not been defined but…
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Calculate global distance between several locations

I am working on the calculation of the distance between two global positions based on their coordinates. When using only two locations, I get results: def global_distance(location1, location2): lat1, lon1 = location1 lat2, lon2 = location2 …
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Find the final latitude longitude after a movement on the globe

I am using the Haversine formula to calculate the distance from two latitude-longitude pairs. function getDistanceFromLatLonInKm(lat1,lon1,lat2,lon2) { var R = 6371; // Radius of the earth in km var dLat = deg2rad(lat2-lat1); var dLon =…
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get nearest latitude and longitude

I have latitude and longitude in this format : 15.1393658,76.92150059999994,13.0873783,77.41112120000003,14.7017498,77.59016529999997 If I enter the another Latitude and longitude like lat=13.0874193,lan=77.41100640000002 they has to give nearest…
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Laravel haversine calculation

I use this tool to calculate distance between 2 points: $location = new CnpPoi(28.535153, -81.383219); $destination = new CnpPoi(42.594018,…
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Get distance between two different latitude and longitude in android?

I have used locationA.distanceTo(locationB); and also have copy pasted a method written for haversine formula. The actual distance between the two geopoints is 25m but i get a result of 6894.52192658389 using the above methods. Followed…
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Calculate Distance between Current Location and Marker on Google Maps v2

I'm new here...please help me I want to develop android application that calculate distance between user's current location and markers. It will calculate the distance when users touch the makers. I want to use Haversine Formula, but i don't know…
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Query for Haversine formula in Oracle

This query is working fine but I want to use the MIN function in this query, because I want only one station which has the least distance from the given current location. How can I use MIN in this query? select * from ( SELECT…
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