Re: Earth distance

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net>
Cc: Tad Marko <tad(at)tadland(dot)net>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Earth distance
Date: 2003-04-02 16:56:33
Message-ID: 20030402165633.GA25829@wolff.to
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:21:53 -0800,
Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net> wrote:
> How easy would it be to add other datums, or the flattened spheroid model
> to be an option for calculations?

You could do it using the current earthdistance as a model for your
functions. Calculating the distance along a geodesic on those surfaces
is much more complicated. But if you have the formulas (which normally
won't be exact), you can do it.

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