'How can I compute current speed, average speed and total distance with leafletjs?

I have a tracking map using Leaflet.js and I want to display:

a) current speed,

b) average speed and

c) total distance traveled.

How would I do this? https://jsfiddle.net/chovy/rfvtwed5/

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Document</title>
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@turf/turf@6/turf.min.js"></script>
    <link
      rel="stylesheet"
      href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/leaflet.css"
      integrity="sha512-xodZBNTC5n17Xt2atTPuE1HxjVMSvLVW9ocqUKLsCC5CXdbqCmblAshOMAS6/keqq/sMZMZ19scR4PsZChSR7A=="
      crossorigin=""
    />
    <link
      rel="stylesheet"
      href="https://unpkg.com/leaflet-control-geocoder/dist/Control.Geocoder.css"
    />
    <style>
      html {
        font-size: 62.5%;
      }
      body {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
        font-size: 1.6rem;
        font-family: sans-serif;
        width: 95vw;
        height: 90vh;
        margin: 0 auto;
      }

      header {
        padding: 1rem 0;
      }

      #map {
        width: 100%;
        height: 100%;
      }

      .marker img {
        width: 3rem;
      }

      .marker span {
        display: block;
        background: #fff;
        width: 10rem;
        padding: 1rem;
        border-radius: 0.4rem;
        border: 1px solid black;
      }

      @media (max-width: 481px) {
        /* portrait e-readers (Nook/Kindle), smaller tablets @ 600 or @ 640 wide. */
        #status {
          display: block;
        }
      }
    </style>
  </head>

  <body>
    <header>
      <button id="start">start</button>
      <button id="stop">stop</button>
      <button id="marker">add marker</button>
      <button id="export">export</button>
      <span id="status"></span>
    </header>
    <div id="map"></div>

    <script
      src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/leaflet.js"
      integrity="sha512-XQoYMqMTK8LvdxXYG3nZ448hOEQiglfqkJs1NOQV44cWnUrBc8PkAOcXy20w0vlaXaVUearIOBhiXZ5V3ynxwA=="
      crossorigin=""
    ></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/leaflet-control-geocoder/dist/Control.Geocoder.js"></script>
    <script>
      const exportButton = document.getElementById("export");
      let intv;

      const status = document.getElementById("status");

      var map = L.map("map", {
        center: [9.082, 8.6753],
        zoom: 8,
      });
      var osm = L.tileLayer(
        "https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png",
        {
          attribution:
                                '&copy; <a href="https://skatespot.com">SkateSpot, Inc.</a>',
        }
      ).addTo(map);
      L.Control.geocoder().addTo(map);
      if (!navigator.geolocation) {
        console.log("Your browser doesn't support geolocation feature!");
      }

      const trackingPath = [];
      const polyline = L.polyline([], {
        color: "red",
        weight: 3,
        className: "path",
      }).addTo(map);

      function start() {
        navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(getPosition);
        intv = setInterval(() => {
          navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(getPosition);
        }, 1000);
      }

      function getPosition(position) {
        // console.log(position)
        const { latitude, longitude, accuracy } = position.coords;
        const pos = [latitude, longitude];
        //const pos = turf.randomPosition([49, 23, 43, 20])
        trackingPath.push(pos);
        polyline.addLatLng(pos);
        map.fitBounds(polyline.getBounds());
        console.log(
          "Your coordinate is: Lat: " +
            latitude +
            " Long: " +
            longitude +
            " Accuracy: " +
            accuracy
        );
      }

      exportButton.addEventListener("click", function () {
        console.log("trackingPath", trackingPath);
        save("data.txt", JSON.stringify(trackingPath));
      });

      function save(filename, data) {
        const blob = new Blob([data], { type: "text/csv" });
        if (window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) {
          window.navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, filename);
        } else {
          const elem = window.document.createElement("a");
          elem.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob);
          elem.download = filename;
          document.body.appendChild(elem);
          elem.click();
          document.body.removeChild(elem);
        }
      }

      function addMarker(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        console.log("add marker");
        status.innerText = "adding marker...";
        navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition((position) => {
          const { latitude, longitude, accuracy } = position.coords;
          const pos = [latitude, longitude];

          var marker = L.marker(pos, {
            icon: new L.DivIcon({
              className: "marker",
              html: `<img src="/marker.svg" alt="" />
                                        <span contenteditable>click to edit</span>`,
            }),
          }).addTo(map);
          var Overlaymaps = {
            Marker: marker,
          };
          L.control.layers(Overlaymaps).addTo(map);

          status.innerText = `Marker added at ${pos.join(", ")}`;
        });
      }

      function startTracking(e) {
        status.innerText = "Started tracking...";
        e.preventDefault();
        start();
      }

      function stopTracking(e) {
        status.innerText = "Stopped tracking.";
        e.preventDefault();
        clearInterval(intv);
      }

      document.getElementById("start").addEventListener("click", startTracking);
      document.getElementById("stop").addEventListener("click", stopTracking);
      document.getElementById("marker").addEventListener("click", addMarker);
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

I'm just guessing here but I think for "current speed" I'd have to take the last 2 readings (every 1 second) and calculate distance and time passed to get speed. as for average speed I'd just take the first and the last data points and do the same.

Total distance I'd have to add up all the data points I assume since a path is not always a straight line.

I just have no idea how to do all this using gps coordinates.

Solution 1:^[1]

Leaflet provides a useful latlngA.distanceTo(latlngB) method to convert a pair of GPS coordinates into actual distance:

Returns the distance (in meters) to the given LatLng calculated using the Spherical Law of Cosines.

With this, you can do something like:

let totalElapsedTime = 0;
let totalDistance = 0;
let previousTime;
let previousLatLng;

function getPosition(position) {
  const time = new Date();
  const latLng = L.latLng(
    position.latitude,
    position.longitude
  );

  // Skip first point (no computation is possible)
  if (previousTime && previousLatLng) {
    const elapsedTime = (time.getTime() - previousTime.getTime()) / 1000; // In seconds
    const distance = previousLatLng.distanceTo(latLng);

    const currentSpeed = distance / elapsedTime; // In meters / second

    totalElapsedTime += elapsedTime;
    totalDistance += distance;

    const averageSpeed = totalDistance / totalElapsedTime; // In meters / second
  }

  // Record time and position for next computation
  previousTime = time;
  previousLatLng = position;

  // Graphic stuff...
}

Note: for average speed you also need total travelled distance to account for non straight line path, unless you want to compute "flying distance" irrespective of actual path, which can therefore decrease back to 0 in case the path becomes a loop back to starting point.

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