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

Links About

• github public repo
• pypi distribution