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Allows for easy parsing of Strings, Hashes and Arrays into a GeoPoint with lat/long
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 Dependencies

Development

>= 1.0.6
>= 1.6.2
>= 2.6.0

Runtime

>= 0.7.7.1
 Project Readme

Geo Point

Adds the concept of a GeoPoint for geo libraries. A GeoPoint encapsulates latitude and longitude, and:

  • a coordinates mode (coord_mode) that can be set to either :lng_lat or :lat_lng
  • calculations such as: distance_to, bearing_to, midpoint, intersection and destination point
  • parsing from various String, Hash or Array formats, including from DMS string format, such as “58 38 38N, 003 04 12W”

Using GeoPoints makes it much easier and more efficient to transport location point data and various geo libraries adds additional functionality such as
vector operations on top (see fx geo_vectors gem). Enjoy!

Install

Gemfile:

gem 'geo_point'

$ bundle

Status Sept 2012

Currently a few of the specs break. Please help Fix. They might be related to geo_calc and/or geo_units gems.

Quick start (Usage)

First define the points on the globe you want to work with.
The GeoPoint initializer is very flexible with regards to the arguments it can handle.

  # factory method on core ruby classes
  "51 12 03 N, 24 10 02 E".geo_point
  [51.5136, -0.0983].geo_point
  {:latitude => 27.3, :longitude => "24 10 02 E"}.geo_point

  # two arguments
  p1 = GeoPoint.new 51.5136, -0.0983
  p2 = GeoPoint.new "14 11 01 N", "-0.0983"
  p3 = GeoPoint.new 51.5136, "24 10 02 E"

  # a String
  p1 = GeoPoint.new "51.5136, -0.0983"
  p1 = GeoPoint.new "51.5136, 24 10 02 E"
  p3 = GeoPoint.new "51.4778, -0.0015"  
  p1 = GeoPoint.new "51 12 03 N, 24 10 02 E"

  # an Array
  p2 = GeoPoint.new [51.5136, -0.0983]
  p2 = GeoPoint.new [51.5136, "24 10 02 E"]
  p2 = GeoPoint.new [51.5136, {:lon => 27.3}]

  # a Hash
  p4 = GeoPoint.new {:lat => 27.3, :lng => "24 10 02 E"}
  p4 = GeoPoint.new {:latitude => 27.3, :longitude => "24 10 02 E"}  

Utility methods

These are some of the utility methods you can use on a GeoPoint object

  p1 = GeoPoint.new 5.1, -7
  p1.lat          # latitude
  p1.lon          # longitude
  p1.to_lat_lng   # Array representation of [lat, lng]
  p1.to_lng_lat   # Array representation of [lng, lat]
  p1.to_s         # String representation (DMS format)
  p1.to_coords    # calls either #to_lat_lng or #to_lng_lat depending on global :coord_mode setting

Global configuration options

  GeoPoint.coord_mode = :lat_lng
  GeoPoint.coord_mode = :lng_lat
  
  GeoPoint.earth_radius_km  = 6379 
  GeoPoint.earth_radius_km  = 6371 

GeoPoint functionality

A GeoPoint always has the following calculation API available:

  • bearing_to(point)
  • final_bearing_to(point)
  • destination_point(brng, dist)
  • distance_to(point)
  • intersection_point(brng1, p2, brng2)
  • midpoint_to(point)

Rhumb: (see Rhumb_line)

  • rhumb_distance_to(point)
  • rhumb_bearing_to(point)
  • rhumb_destination_point(brng, dist)

See the geo_calc gem for details on how to use this Api

Contributing to geo_point

  • Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn’t been implemented or the bug hasn’t been fixed yet
  • Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn’t requested it and/or contributed it
  • Fork the project
  • Start a feature/bugfix branch
  • Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
  • Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
  • Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 Kristian Mandrup. See LICENSE.txt for
further details.