#Distance Calculator
Written in Go.
Functionality: Given a location with latitude and longitude both in degrees and a CSV file with record ID, latitude in degrees, and longitude in degrees, output two CSV files. Both files will contain 5 records, each with the record ID, latitude and longitude of the original point in degrees, as well as the distance in kilometers from the given location. One file will be of the top 5 closest points to the given location and the other will be the top 5 furthest points from the given location
Deployment
Path
First, set your Go path correctly:
export GOPATH=$HOME/extremedistances
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
You can just type this in the command line.
Build
This command (executed from the home project directory) will build the executable and the executable file will be in the directory in which you invoke this command:
go install calculate
Invoking this command will result in an executable in bin/
Run
Executing the following will generate the two files mentioned above, and these two files will be in the directory where you execute this command. Make sure you give it an argument with the directory of the file containing the data points.
$GOPATH/bin/calculate <file_name>
The directory in which you invoke this call is where this program will deposit a 'closest.csv' and a 'furthest.csv' file.