Re: [Geocoding] Help with student project about GPS-coordinates for windsurfers!

2017-04-29 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hi Mats, I will try to answer your questions - although they are a bit broad: 1. shortest distance (in the plane) between a point (surfer) and a line geometry (the coast) - packages like geos or jts can do this using their DistanceOp function. However, you would need to convert the GPS

[Geocoding] Help with student project about GPS-coordinates for windsurfers!

2017-04-29 Thread Mats Blakstad
Hi I work on a student project in a course about Use Design at University of Oslo. Our project is to help windsurfers; We try make a small gadget that that they can bring (using Arduino) that will help them (1) be alerted when they move too far from land, (2) be able to send a SOS signal