Point To Line Distance

Returns the minimum distance between a Point and any segment of the LineString.

Example

from turfpy.measurement import point_to_line_distance
from geojson import LineString, Point, Feature
point = Feature(geometry=Point([0, 0]))
linestring = Feature(geometry=LineString([(1, 1),(-1, 1)]))
point_to_line_distance(point, linestring)

111.19508023353292

Interactive Example

from turfpy.measurement import point_to_line_distance
from geojson import LineString, Point, Feature
from ipyleaflet import Map, GeoJSON, LayersControl, WidgetControl
from ipywidgets import HTML

point = Feature(geometry=Point([0, 0]))
linestring = Feature(geometry=LineString([(1, 1),(-1, 1)]))

m = Map(center=[0.5427636983179688, 0.3891992568969727], zoom=8)

geo_json = GeoJSON(name='Point', data=point)

m.add_layer(geo_json)

point_geojson = GeoJSON(name='Linestring', data=linestring)

m.add_layer(point_geojson)

html = HTML()
html.layout.margin = '0px 20px 10px 20px'
html.value = '''
        <h4>Minimum distance between the Point and the LineString in meters</h4>
        <h4>{}</h4>
    '''.format(point_to_line_distance(point, linestring, units='m'))

control = WidgetControl(widget=html, position='topright')
m.add_control(control)

m