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+--[[
+    This file is part of darktable,
+    Copyright 2014 by Tobias Jakobs.
+
+    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+    the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+    (at your option) any later version.
+
+    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+    GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+]]
+--[[
+darktable calc distance script
+
+This script calcs the distance between two images using the GPS data in the metadata
+
+USAGE
+* require this script from your main lua file
+* register a shortcut
+]]
+   
+dt = require "darktable"
+dt.configuration.check_version(...,{2,0,1})
+
+function isnan(x) return x ~= x end
+
+local function calcDistance()
+	local sel_images = dt.gui.selection()
+
+    local lat1 = 0;
+    local lon1 = 0;
+    local lat2 = 0;
+    local lon2 = 0;
+    local i = 0;
+
+    local sel_images = dt.gui.selection()
+
+    for _,image in ipairs(sel_images) do
+	if ((not isnan(image.longitude) and not isnan(image.latitude)) and 
+            (image.longitude ~= 0 and image.latitude ~= 90) -- Sometimes the north-pole but most likely just wrong data
+           ) then
+          
+          i = i + 1;
+          
+          if (i == 1) then
+            lat1 = image.latitude;
+            lon1 = image.longitude;
+          end
+         
+         lat2 = image.latitude;
+         lon2 = image.longitude;
+
+        end
+    end
+
+-- I used code from here:
+-- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27928/how-do-i-calculate-distance-between-two-latitude-longitude-points
+
+    local earthRadius = 6371; -- Radius of the earth in km
+    local dLat = math.rad(lat2-lat1);  -- deg2rad below
+    local dLon = math.rad(lon2-lon1); 
+    local a = 
+      math.sin(dLat/2) * math.sin(dLat/2) +
+      math.cos(math.rad(lat1)) * math.cos(math.rad(lat2)) * 
+      math.sin(dLon/2) * math.sin(dLon/2)
+      ; 
+    local angle = 2 * math.atan2(math.sqrt(a), math.sqrt(1-a)); 
+    local distance = earthRadius * angle; -- Distance in km  
+
+    dt.print(distance)
+
+
+end
+
+-- Register
+dt.register_event("shortcut",calcDistance,"Calculate the distance from latitude and longitude in km")