Convex Hulls with GPS + GPX + HXT

GPS, a toy library for basic Latitude/Longitude based calculations, has just received a small face lift. I now leverage the GPX library and its classes/data types of Lat, Lon, and Time so GPS no longer needs to declare Latitude, Longitude, Coordinate, or Location.

In addition to the old addVector, restLocations, heading and divideArea functions GPS now also includes a convexHull function. Here’s how to get a convex hull from a gpx trace produced by a logger:

import Text.XML.HXT.Arrow
import Data.GPS
import Data.Geo.GPX
import System.Environment
import Control.Monad

main = do
        fs <- getArgs
        g >> xpickleDocument xpickle [(a_indent, v_1)] "convexHull.gpx")
        return ()

And comparing the traces this looks right.

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