> The distance_to() method is a pretty standard "great circle" calculation, > and that's exactly its purpose. Are you sure your "faster" version does > the same? Does it yield the same (numeric) results? And besides, in the > visual range direct_distance_to() should be good enough, and it's > certainly > faster. I doubt that considering Earth curvature is *that* important for > cloud distances.
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