# misc.py - miscellaneous geodesy and time functions # # This file is Copyright (c) 2010 by the GPSD project # BSD terms apply: see the file COPYING in the distribution root for details. # This code run compatibly under Python 2 and 3.x for x >= 3. # Preserve this property! from __future__ import print_function, division import time, calendar, math # some multipliers for interpreting GPS output METERS_TO_FEET = 3.2808399 # Meters to U.S./British feet METERS_TO_MILES = 0.00062137119 # Meters to miles METERS_TO_FATHOMS = 0.54680665 # Meters to fathoms KNOTS_TO_MPH = 1.1507794 # Knots to miles per hour KNOTS_TO_KPH = 1.852 # Knots to kilometers per hour KNOTS_TO_MPS = 0.51444444 # Knots to meters per second MPS_TO_KPH = 3.6 # Meters per second to klicks/hr MPS_TO_MPH = 2.2369363 # Meters/second to miles per hour MPS_TO_KNOTS = 1.9438445 # Meters per second to knots # EarthDistance code swiped from Kismet and corrected def Deg2Rad(x): "Degrees to radians." return x * (math.pi / 180) def Rad2Deg(x): "Radians to degress." return x * (180 / math.pi) def CalcRad(lat): "Radius of curvature in meters at specified latitude." a = 6378.137 e2 = 0.081082 * 0.081082 # the radius of curvature of an ellipsoidal Earth in the plane of a # meridian of latitude is given by # # R' = a * (1 - e^2) / (1 - e^2 * (sin(lat))^2)^(3/2) # # where a is the equatorial radius, # b is the polar radius, and # e is the eccentricity of the ellipsoid = sqrt(1 - b^2/a^2) # # a = 6378 km (3963 mi) Equatorial radius (surface to center distance) # b = 6356.752 km (3950 mi) Polar radius (surface to center distance) # e = 0.081082 Eccentricity sc = math.sin(Deg2Rad(lat)) x = a * (1.0 - e2) z = 1.0 - e2 * sc * sc y = pow(z, 1.5) r = x / y r = r * 1000.0 # Convert to meters return r def EarthDistance(c1, c2): "Distance in meters between two points specified in degrees." (lat1, lon1) = c1 (lat2, lon2) = c2 x1 = CalcRad(lat1) * math.cos(Deg2Rad(lon1)) * math.sin(Deg2Rad(90 - lat1)) x2 = CalcRad(lat2) * math.cos(Deg2Rad(lon2)) * math.sin(Deg2Rad(90 - lat2)) y1 = CalcRad(lat1) * math.sin(Deg2Rad(lon1)) * math.sin(Deg2Rad(90 - lat1)) y2 = CalcRad(lat2) * math.sin(Deg2Rad(lon2)) * math.sin(Deg2Rad(90 - lat2)) z1 = CalcRad(lat1) * math.cos(Deg2Rad(90 - lat1)) z2 = CalcRad(lat2) * math.cos(Deg2Rad(90 -lat2)) a = (x1 *x2 + y1 *y2 + z1 *z2) /pow(CalcRad((lat1 +lat2) /2), 2) # a should be in [1, -1] but can sometimes fall outside it by # a very small amount due to rounding errors in the preceding # calculations (this is prone to happen when the argument points # are very close together). Thus we constrain it here. if abs(a) > 1: a = 1 elif a < -1: a = -1 return CalcRad((lat1 +lat2) / 2) * math.acos(a) def MeterOffset(c1, c2): "Return offset in meters of second arg from first." (lat1, lon1) = c1 (lat2, lon2) = c2 dx = EarthDistance((lat1, lon1), (lat1, lon2)) dy = EarthDistance((lat1, lon1), (lat2, lon1)) if lat1 < lat2: dy *= -1 if lon1 < lon2: dx *= -1 return (dx, dy) def isotime(s): "Convert timestamps in ISO8661 format to and from Unix time." if type(s) == type(1): return time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", time.gmtime(s)) elif type(s) == type(1.0): date = int(s) msec = s - date date = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S", time.gmtime(s)) return date + "." + repr(msec)[3:] elif type(s) == type("") or type(s) == type(u""): if s[-1] == "Z": s = s[:-1] if "." in s: (date, msec) = s.split(".") else: date = s msec = "0" # Note: no leap-second correction! return calendar.timegm(time.strptime(date, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")) + float("0." + msec) else: raise TypeError # End