Geographical Calculator was developed for laravel 5.8+ to help you implement geographical calculation, with several algorithms that help you deal with coordinates.

Installation

1 - Dependency

The first step is using composer to install the package and automatically update your composer.json file, you can do this by running:

composer require kmlaravel/laravel-geographical-calculator

2 - Copy the package providers to your local config with the publish command, this will publish the config:

php artisan geo:install

Features

• Get the distance between one or more points
• Get the center between a set of points
• Get the closest point to the specific point
• Get the farthest point to the specific point
• Check if a given point is located in a given area
• Get a ranking of points by the nearest neighbor algorithm
• Get all package features

Config options

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | units values
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | your custom units, the initial units its convert from a mile to any value
    | (1.609344) is the conversion factor from a mile to a kilometer
    */
    'units' => [
        'mile' => 1,
        'km' => 1.609344,
        'm' => (1.609344 * 1000),
        'cm' => (1.609344 * 100),
        'mm' => (1.609344 * 1000 * 1000),
    ],

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | distance_key_prefix
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | if you declared more than tow points to resolve their distance,
    | you will see the result in the following format:
    | "1-2" => ["km" => "some result"],
    | "2-3" => ["km" => "some result"],
    | "3-4" => ["km" => "some result"],
    | and if you want to set any prefix before each index
    | you must change the below value to any value you want.
    |
    */
    'distance_key_prefix' => '',

For more details, Please visit Github.

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