On Nov 17, 7:09 am, Tiago Reul <[email protected]> wrote:
> Suppose that you have the position of each person in the world.
> Position is the pair (latitude, longitude).
>
> How to represent the data so that I can find the nearest person
> from a point (φ,λ) without comparing to every pair in the collection?

The standard solution to this problem is to use a Voronoi diagram.
I am only familiar with the Euclidean version but I see no problem
constructing a Voronoi diagram on the surface of a sphere.

Ralph Boland

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