So as I'm redoing my dissertation work, one of the functions I used was to calculate the distance between two locations based upon their coordinates (latitude and longitude). At the time, I was referencing and using what is commonly referred to as the Great Circle distance. So in the middle of my re-write into Python I stumbled across:
GeoPy
They not only provide the Great Circle distance calculation in their module, they introduced me to the Vincenty Distance. According to the module authors this is a more accurate approach for calculating the distance.
It looks like I have a new way to calculate my spatial distances, and even better, I don't have to program it up myself. I'm loving this Python re-write process already.
My thoughts on Statistics, Python, R and Emacs; with an occasional tangent sprinkled in here or there.
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