gdist: Geodesic distance (great circle distance) between points

In Imap: Interactive Mapping

Description

gdist() gives the geodesic distance between two points specified by latitude/longitude using Vincenty inverse formula for ellipsoids. The distance is given in nautical miles (the default), meters, kilometers, or miles. gdist.total() applies gdist() to any number of line segments.

Usage

gdist(lon.1, lat.1, lon.2, lat.2, units = "nm", a = 6378137.0, b = 6356752.3142, verbose = FALSE)

gdist.total(longlat, units = "nm", segments = TRUE, digits = 2)

Arguments

lon.1	Longitude of the first point.
lat.1	Latitude of the first point.
lon.2	Longitude of the second point.
lat.2	Latitude of the second point.
units	Any one of "nm": nautical miles (the default), "m": meters, "km": kilometers, or "miles": miles, for units of the returned value.
a	Major semiaxes of the ellipsoid in meters. The default is for the Earth: 6378137.0
b	Minor semiaxes of the ellipsoid in meters. The default is for the Earth: 6356752.3142
verbose	Should extra information be output, the default is FALSE.
longlat	Two dimensional (n x 2) data in the form of a matrix or dataframe. The first column should be the longitude or x-axis column and the second the latitude or y-axis column.
segments	When there are more than two or more segments, should the distance for each segment be output. The default is TRUE.
digits	The number of rounding digits to use in the segment output. The default is 2.

Value

The total geodesic distance in the units specified.

Author(s)

John R. Wallace: [e-mail] (Limited support)

References

Inspired by: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/LatLongVincenty.html

Vincenty, T. Direct and inverse solutions of geodesics on the ellipsoid with application of nested equations. Survey Review XXII, 176, April 1975. http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/inverse.pdf

See Also

imap, draw.lines

Examples

## Not run: 

imap() # Zoom into an area, right-click to stop.

gdist.total(draw.lines(rainbow(10), lwd=4)) # Left-click two or more times, right-click to stop.

# The total distance of the polygon's perimeter:
gdist.total(draw.polygon())  # Left-click three or more times, right-click to stop.

# The total distance of contiguous points (those not separated by NA's).
gdist.total(select.pts(imap()[[1]]$ll)) # Zoom in to an area, right-click, and then select points by creating a polygon with left-clicks.


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