Re: OT: spherical geometry (Re: earthdistance is not giving ...) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Holger Klawitter
Subject Re: OT: spherical geometry (Re: earthdistance is not giving ...)
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Msg-id 200410061437.36727.lists@klawitter.de
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In response to Re: earthdistance is not giving correct results.  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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> I've never seen this, but at a guess it could mean starting with 0 at
> one pole and counting to 180 at the other.

Yes, that makes sense; thanks!
But this scheme will certainly not be compatible to the distance fomula :-)

Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards
    Holger Klawitter
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