Pandas Latitude-Longitude to distance between successive rows [duplicate]

you can use this great solution (c) @derricw (don’t forget to upvote it ;-):

# vectorized haversine function
def haversine(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2, to_radians=True, earth_radius=6371):
    """
    slightly modified version: of http://stackoverflow.com/a/29546836/2901002

    Calculate the great circle distance between two points
    on the earth (specified in decimal degrees or in radians)

    All (lat, lon) coordinates must have numeric dtypes and be of equal length.

    """
    if to_radians:
        lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2 = np.radians([lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2])

    a = np.sin((lat2-lat1)/2.0)**2 + \
        np.cos(lat1) * np.cos(lat2) * np.sin((lon2-lon1)/2.0)**2

    return earth_radius * 2 * np.arcsin(np.sqrt(a))


df['dist'] = \
    haversine(df.LAT.shift(), df.LONG.shift(),
                 df.loc[1:, 'LAT'], df.loc[1:, 'LONG'])

Result:

In [566]: df
Out[566]:
   Ser_Numb        LAT       LONG         dist
0         1  74.166061  30.512811          NaN
1         2  72.249672  33.427724   232.549785
2         3  67.499828  37.937264   554.905446
3         4  84.253715  69.328767  1981.896491
4         5  72.104828  33.823462  1513.397997
5         6  63.989462  51.918173  1164.481327
6         7  80.209112  33.530778  1887.256899
7         8  68.954132  35.981256  1252.531365
8         9  83.378214  40.619652  1606.340727
9        10  68.778571   6.607066  1793.921854

UPDATE: this will help to understand the logic:

In [573]: pd.concat([df['LAT'].shift(), df.loc[1:, 'LAT']], axis=1, ignore_index=True)
Out[573]:
           0          1
0        NaN        NaN
1  74.166061  72.249672
2  72.249672  67.499828
3  67.499828  84.253715
4  84.253715  72.104828
5  72.104828  63.989462
6  63.989462  80.209112
7  80.209112  68.954132
8  68.954132  83.378214
9  83.378214  68.778571

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