Distances Calculator
This is a distance calculator between 2 addressed, it is based on openstreetmap api.
Getting start
- install,
pip install distances-calculator - uninstall
pip uninstall distances-calculator
get distance between 2 addresses
2 parameters,
- address 1
- address 2
distances-calc "125 Queen St, Auckland, 0620" "127 Queen St, Auckland, 0620"
calculate the distance between a table's data
2 parameters,
- address, the center, the original address
- path, the absolute path of your csv file
distances_writer "125 Queen St, Auckland, 0620" "/home/Username/test.csv"
example of distance_writer
table test.csv
| id | address |
|---|---|
| 0 | 1 Fontenoy Street, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025 |
| 1 | 3A Fontenoy Street, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025 |
after running distances_writer "125 Queen St, Auckland, 0620" "/home/Username/test.csv"
new table test.csv will be
| id | address | distance_to_139 Carrington Rd, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025 |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 Fontenoy Street, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025 | 0.447789551786935 |
| 1 | 3A Fontenoy Street, Mount Albert, Auckland 1025 | 0.471488332032505 |
P.S.
in your csv table, there should be one column named address, and the writer can create a new column named distance_to_<address>
How to calculate distance
Based on coordinate
Earth is a sphere, so we can use simple triangle function to calculate a not accurate distance, but most of time, this direct distance is good enough.
Based on open street map api (in future)
this can be used to calculate route distance.
APIxcode
- extract_coordinate
- get_distance
- write_into
