On Saturday 14 January 2006 03:25, dene maxwell wrote:
> Hi,
> Is the lat and long for the vertices concerned known?
>
> if so I have the great circle formula for shortest distance between known
> points, presently coded in VB but the level of commenting is such that a
> c++ newbie could convert it (I think) <g>
>
> is this of any help or am i "teaching my grandmother how to suck eggs"?

You're teaching your grandmother ...  :)
The formulae are pretty easy and SimGear is full of nice great circle routines 
already.

Paul


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