One nautical mile is one minute of arc along the meridian line (one degree of longitude), that makes it very easy to calculate distance on a chart (independent on the vehicle used :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Ivan Brusic <[email protected]> wrote: > Aircraft use nautical miles? You learn something new every day! > > -- > Ivan > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:21 PM, InquiringMind <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Would it be reasonable to create an issue to request nautical miles ("nm" >> as the abbreviation) for the DistanceUnit enumeration? >> >> This would make it much more natural to adapt Elasticsearch for aircraft >> planning / charting applications. Everything in that world is in nautical >> miles and knots (nautical miles per hour). >> >> Brian >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elasticsearch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8ca57a9f-a8e0-4865-aaf7-2eee224822a8%40googlegroups.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQCdNuCF4QN2hjW61oQKMODPZ3GGfywF2VATHSbPHjqyTw%40mail.gmail.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CANKfucbO%2BgXXPLF52GnOeP5o5pq9kaRWQkSN%3DevHOJXe2kLFTA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
