No, that will give you distance as-the-crow-flies strait (great circle) lines. If you want distance as a function of driving directions, you're going the right route. (pun intended, now that I've written it)
~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Colin Holgate <co...@verizon.net> wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > > > Why use GoogleMaps ? > > > > Convert your Long and Lat coordinates to radians > > > > And use a simple Haversine formula in Livecode to > > calculate the distance. > > > Would that give you the driving distance? > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
