Latitude Longitude Distance - 140byt.es

This uses the Haversine formula to calculate the great-circle distance between two points.

Usage

distanceLatLng (
  latitude1, longitude1, // first coordinates
  latitude2, longitude2, // seconds coordinates
  diameter // earth diameter (might be any unit)
)

// returns the distance in the specified unit

Earth Diameter

• 2 * 6378.137 Kilometers
• 2 * 6378137 Meters
• 2 * 3963.190 Miles

Author

Created by Martin Kleppe (@aemkei) at Ubilabs.

DIY

Check his “JavaScript Golf Lessons“ slides.

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