Not exactly what you want, but you can do this with PostGIS by casting your geometry to the geography type:
https://postgis.net/workshops/postgis-intro/geography.html On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:26 AM Atle Frenvik Sveen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Not sure if would want to use gdal for this task*, but take a look at this > blog post: > > https://janakiev.com/blog/gps-points-distance-python/ > > > *or if it's doable, i guess not, since the scope of gdal is > reading/writing geospatial formats > > -a > > - > Atle Frenvik Sveen > [email protected] > 45278689 > atlefren.net > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, at 17:32, Nicolas Cadieux wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get the length of a line in python. (Not just the > > straight length between the first and last nodes). Using geopandas, > > (therefore the Shapely lib) I am getting the euclidien distance even > > though the dataframe holdings the line geometries has a CRS (WGS84, > > zone UTM 18 S). Obviously, the WGS84 Ellipsoid is not taken into > > account. > > > > Can I do this with gdal/ogr? > > > > Thanks for the help > > Nicolas > > _______________________________________________ > > gdal-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
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