Choice between linear and spherical for distance_between

[donaldpiret]

I'm surprised we don't get the option of choosing between a spherical and linear formula for calculating distances. For search-engines that need to query large amount of objects based on relatively small distances this makes a fairly big performance difference and other libraries like Geokit have this implemented throughout.

[alexreisner]

I encourage you to submit a pull request for this. Shouldn't be hard, just take a look at lib/geocoder/calculations.rb.

[yshahin]

Should this feature use the same distances config for setting the formula that will be used for the distance calculation? or create a new config setting called distance_formula?

[alexreisner]

For now I think best to use the existing config.

[jcfausto]

Hi, I'd like to work on adding this additional functionality if you don't mind. Let me know if it's still something that is of your interest.

Cheers, Julio.

[yshahin]

Please go ahead I am no longer working on this.

Best Regards, Youssef Shahin On Aug 14, 2019, 9:04 AM +0200, Julio Cesar Fausto [email protected], wrote:

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