Does one know, whether the JS API function is a great-circle distance 
calculation? The bearing calculatios seems to be it.

Regards


Shanti schrieb:
> Thanks Larry! much helpful :D
>
> On Mar 20, 1:34 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>   
>> On Mar 20, 12:14 am, Shanti <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hello, I am working on a nearby marker locator, I got the code working
>>> (offline) using MySQL and PHP and its working very nice. my question
>>> is.
>>>       
>>> Is there a way in (JS or PHP in the Google maps api), that will tell
>>> me in what direction is that nearby marker located? either by North,
>>> South, East, West, or even better by Degrees (Example: 90° East)
>>>       
>>> my database contains the lat and lon of all the markers I am using but
>>> the idea is to create them dynamically and have the direction setup
>>> automatically as well, finding the direction is just driving me
>>> insane, any help will be GREATLY appreciated :)
>>>       
>> From Mike Williams' tutorial:
>> Part 8 Calculating the straight line distance and bearing direction
>> between two points.http://econym.org.uk/gmap/dist.htm
>>
>>   -- Larry
>>     
> >
>
>   


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