Look at contrib/earthdistance, I **think** it does what you need.
LER
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 12:44, Tim Perdue wrote:
> Hi Folks -
>
> I'm working on a global weather database for a client and have hit an issue
> which I'm sure has been solved before. Unfortunately, the site search doesn't
> pull up anything.
>
> Essentially, I've got two tables, one with city/county/lat/long and another
> with lat/long/weather data.
>
> None of the lat/longs in the two tables match up directly, so I can't do a
> simple join of the two tables. I need to join on closest proximity on the
> lat/long fields.
>
> Any suggestions? It seems to me this will be pretty expensive on CPU resources
> unless there's a really elegant trick uncovered.
>
> Tim
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