Re: Distance between 2 latitudes and longitudes

2002-03-06 Thread Lee Goddard
At 10:14 06/03/2002 -0600, MOTTER, JEFFREY D. wrote: Does any know where I can find a script to calculate the distance between 2 seperate latitudes and longitudes? The distance between each line of lat and lon is slightly different: if you can me a list of them, I can write you the script, and

Re: Distance between 2 latitudes and longitudes

2002-03-06 Thread Brian Gilkison
Lee, Jeff, There is a formula posted for calculating the Great Circle distance between two points on a sphere, and an explanation at: http://www.mercury.demon.co.uk/dist/formula.html Brian On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Lee Goddard wrote: At 10:14 06/03/2002 -0600, MOTTER, JEFFREY D. wrote: Does any

Re: Distance between 2 latitudes and longitudes

2002-03-06 Thread Lee Goddard
Damn, that means I'd better get onto it... thanks a bunch! ;-)) Cheers! Lee At 11:39 06/03/2002 -0500, Brian Gilkison wrote: Lee, Jeff, There is a formula posted for calculating the Great Circle distance between two points on a sphere, and an explanation at:

Re: Distance between 2 latitudes and longitudes

2002-03-06 Thread Jack D
Does any know where I can find a script to calculate the distance between 2 seperate latitudes and longitudes? Right out of the man pages: To calculate the distance between London (51.3N 0.5W) and Tokyo (35.7N 139.8E) in kilometers: use Math::Trig qw(great_circle_distance deg2rad); # Notice

RE: Distance between 2 latitudes and longitudes

2002-03-06 Thread Charbeneau, Chuck
This time, I'll post it to the list: From: Lee Goddard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Re: Distance between 2 latitudes and longitudes At 10:14 06/03/2002 -0600, MOTTER, JEFFREY D. wrote: Does any know where I can find a script to calculate the distance between 2 seperate latitudes