most-circular-country

A project to determine which countries are most circular. (UNFINISHED)

Description

The "most-circular-country" project is an unfinished project that aims to determine the circularity of countries. It was created as a challenge from a friend and uses a simple logic to measure circularity.

Installation

1. Download the project files.
2. Unzip the maps.
3. Change the shp_path variable in the code to point to your own path where the shapefile is located.

Usage

Run the code, and the results will highlight which countries are most circular.

Logic

The project uses a simple logic to measure circularity:

1. Around every country, create n amount of points (the higher the more accurate).
2. Get the distance of each point from the middle of the country.
3. Calculate the standard deviation of these distances. A perfect circle would have no standard deviation.

Screenshots

Contributing

This project is unfinished and currently open to contributions.

Credits

I have started this small project because my friend Ahmed Samir challenged me.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.