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ldebrouwer/distance
===================

Distance helps you calculate the distance between GPS coordinates, in vanilla PHP. Pure and simple.

v1.0(3mo ago)1103MITPHPPHP >=8.4CI passing

Since Apr 25Pushed 3mo ago2 watchersCompare

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Distance
========

[](#distance)

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Distance helps you calculate the distance between GPS coordinates, in vanilla PHP. Pure and simple.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

### Using Composer

[](#using-composer)

When using [Composer](https://getcomposer.org) you can always load in the latest version.

```
{
    "require": {
        "ldebrouwer/distance": "^1.0"
    }
}
```

Check it out [on Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/ldebrouwer/distance).

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
$distance = new Distance()
    ->setFormula(Formula::HAVERSINE)
    ->setUnit(Unit::KILOMETRES)
    ->between(37.331741, -122.030333, 37.422546, -122.084250);
```

Still to come
-------------

[](#still-to-come)

- Expanded unit support.
- Documentation.

###  Health Score

50

—

FairBetter than 95% of packages

Maintenance80

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity84

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 64.7% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1319 days

Total

4

Last Release

106d ago

Major Versions

v0.2 → v1.02026-02-23

PHP version history (2 changes)v0.1PHP >=5.5

v1.0PHP >=8.4

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/09c2bfa22b6e83cf490a8c0582be9084da9df9431697a383eb2a09f6cae79456?d=identicon)[ldebrouwer](/maintainers/ldebrouwer)

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Top Contributors

[![ldebrouwer-rmn](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6084647?v=4)](https://github.com/ldebrouwer-rmn "ldebrouwer-rmn (11 commits)")[![ldebrouwer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/913410?v=4)](https://github.com/ldebrouwer "ldebrouwer (6 commits)")

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Tags

phplocationlatitudelongitudedistancegpscoordinates

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

Type Coverage Yes

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