Re: Earth distance - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Earth distance
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Msg-id 20030402024925.GA21739@wolff.to
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In response to Re: Earth distance  (Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>)
Responses Re: Earth distance  (Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>)
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 13:09:33 -0800,
  Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net> wrote:
> So does Postgres do 'Great Circle' calculations? Like distance between two
> points? What dataset does it use?

Yes it does Great Circle distance. It uses a spherical model, so the only
parameter is the Earth's radius.


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