On 3 May 2011 15:40, Thoern <turbokil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Found a post that stated one could extrace distance between 2 points
> by using
>
> distance = Math.sqrt((69.1*(cy-lat))*(69.1*(cy-lat))+(53.0*(cx-lng))*
> (53.0*(cx-lng)));

I think it's
point 1: (cy,cx) ie, latitude, longitude
point 2: (lat, lng)

...but I'd be very surprised if that actually worked for any two
arbitrary points. Which post did you find?

See the Haversine formula, at the top of the page at
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html (and other places,
but it's laid out nicely there)

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