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How to calculate the distance between a location and a way segment? Demo attached

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By OpenStreet Map s', var closestSegment PointX, var closestSegment PointY, Var Nearest WayId
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For my question I have prepared a JsFiddle demo which works well and is fun to play around with: My question is neither about Javascript nor Openstreetmap though. It is about mathematics, please read on to see my problem. When you drag the marker around and release it, I send an Overpass API query to retrieve the way objects with non-empty highway tag and then draw them as blue Leaflet polylines with clickable popups attached to them.
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Why does turf.nearestPointOnLine() return different distance when several nodes are passed at once?

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By Var Nearest WayId, OpenStreet Map s', var overpassLayer, sendOverpass Request
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Asked today Viewed 4 times For my question I have prepared a jsFiddle demo where you can drag a marker around and the nearest way is drawn in red color: function distancePointSegment(lat, lng, lat1, lng1, lat2, lng2) { var pt = turf.point([lng, lat]); var line = turf.lineString([ [lng1, lat1], [lng2, lat2] ]); var snapped = turf.nearestPointOnLine(line, pt); return snapped.properties.dist; } function distancePointSegmentBroken(lat, lng, list) { var pt = turf.point([lng, lat]); var line =...
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