LatLon2Meter

Python Script to calculate the distance between two points from Lat/Lon Coordinates

IPython Notebook

How to use?

python LatLon2Meter.py 38.7436265 -9.1602036 52.5075419 13.4261418

is doin this for you:

Calculating Distance from 1600-046 Lisbon, Portugal to 10179 Berlin, Germany
Entfernung aus Pythagoras:          2331854.029m (ca. 2331km)
Entfernung aus Seitencosinus:       2314672.226m (ca. 2314km)
Berechnung über Pythagoras macht -17.18km (0.74%) Fehler.
'Distance.png' saved. Done.

The coordinates (Lat/Lon) have to be in Decimal Degrees, not in DD°mm'ssss''

What does this do?

Calculates the distance between two points with three different methods:

• Pythagoras
• Great Circle via Cosine (better)
• Haversine Formula

Dependencies

• Matplotlib Basemap for Globe output
• requests for Reverse-Geoencoding of the Lat/Lon Coordinates to Adress

LatLon2Meter Error

Calculates the Error, made with Pythagoras instead of Haversine formula.