I've been working on an API that serves up information about geographic coordinates. At Weft we're specifically curious about which of our shapefiles contain the coordinates in question. In optimizing that query I had to generate a bunch of random coordinates… 

(defn ->coord
  [coord-type n]
  (when n
    (case coord-type
      :lat (assert (and (>= n -90) (<= n 90)))
      :lon (assert (and (>= n -180) (<= n 180))))
    (->> n (double) (format "%.6f") (Double.))))

(defn rand-lat []
  (let [random (java.util.Random.)
        max 90
        min -90
        diff (- max min)]
    (->> random (.nextDouble) (* diff) (+ min) (->coord :lat))))

(defn rand-lon []
  (let [random (java.util.Random.)
        max 180
        min -180
        diff (- max min)]
    (->> random (.nextDouble) (* diff) (+ min) (->coord :lon))))

These basic functions turn out to be pretty nifty when you want to pass a seq of lat/lon pairs to a function: 

(get-enclosing-shapefiles @conn (for [_ (range 100)] [(rand-lat) (rand-lon)]))

That's all. Happy query-optimizing.