Alex,

I created issue https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/5085

I don't use GitHub that much, and I kinda muffed the issue, so I'll let 
someone else add the one enumeration to wherever it should best go:

NAUTICALMILES(1852.0, "nm", "nmi"),

Thanks!

Brian

Brian

On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 8:25:03 AM UTC-5, Alexander Reelsen wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> never thought about such a use-case, but it sounds useful. Feel free to 
> create an issue, and even better, a pull request to add that functionality 
> to DistanceUnit
>
>
> --Alex
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Raffaele Sena <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> 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]<javascript:>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Aircraft use nautical miles? You learn something new every day!
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Ivan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:21 PM, InquiringMind 
>>> <[email protected]<javascript:>
>>> > 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
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