vincenty 0.1.1

Calculate the geographical distance between 2 points with extreme accuracy.

Vincenty

Calculate the geographical distance (in kilometers or miles) between 2 points with extreme accuracy.

Example: distance between Boston and New York City

>>> from vincenty import vincenty
>>> boston = (42.3541165, -71.0693514)
>>> newyork = (40.7791472, -73.9680804)
>>> vincenty(boston, newyork)
298.396057
>>> vincenty(boston, newyork, miles=True)
185.414657

Installation

$ pip install vincenty

See also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenty%27s_formulae http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System