turf.js for spatial calculations / helper functions?

[iainkirkpatrick]

hi folks!

not sure if issues is the best place for this but thought it might get lost as a comment on a closed pull req... was rudely nosing through commits on my github feed, and saw you have borrowed some unwieldy function to calculate distances from a point along the earth (in scripts/coords.js).

turf.js is an awesome modular JS library for doing that sort of stuff! in fact i think it has exactly the function you need :) and though turf is a collection of functions, you can install / require them all individually from npm, so it doesn't weigh down the code with unnecessary pieces!

i saw this one and thought of you too, might be helpful? dunno?

hope it's useful! 🐶

[don-smith]

That's awesome Iain! Thank you very much! I know we're on a time crunch, but that function is just horrible.

And I would argue you were helpfully nosing through the commits 😄

Thanks again!

[fractalcactus]

^ what Don said
Awesome, thanks! Will implement that at the end of today if I get thinks rendering