This module can work with different shapes such as square, rectangle, polygon and circle to check if a point lies inside them or not.
- Vehicle tracking system for locating a vehicle or generating alerts.
- Geolocation based software systems for writing business logics based on location of the user.
- Computer graphics, in locating a point.
- Computer vision systems.
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Download the geofence.py.
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Import and start using it.
import geofence #An example of square g = Geofence('polygon') g.set_shape( ( 1, 1 ), ( 1, 2 ), ( 2, 2 ), ( 2, 1 ) ) print g.is_inside( ( 1.5, 1.5 ) ) print g.is_inside( ( 4.9, 1.2 ) ) print g.is_inside( ( 1.8, 1.1 ) ) #An example of circle g = Geofence('circle') g.set_shape( ( 1 , 1 ), 3) print g.is_inside( ( 1.5, 1.5 ) ) print g.is_inside( ( 4.9, 1.2 ) ) print g.is_inside( ( 1.8, 1.1 ) )
This module is not production ready, and has not been tested enough.
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