Re: Earth distance - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Earth distance
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Msg-id 20030402165633.GA25829@wolff.to
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In response to Re: Earth distance  (Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>)
List pgsql-general
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:21:53 -0800,
  Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net> wrote:
> How easy would it be to add other datums, or the flattened spheroid model
> to be an option for calculations?

You could do it using the current earthdistance as a model for your
functions. Calculating the distance along a geodesic on those surfaces
is much more complicated. But if you have the formulas (which normally
won't be exact), you can do it.


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