Matthew Smith wrote at Fri, 12 Jul 2002 06:37:53 +0200: > I'm looking to create a simple Perl module to return the distance between two points >on the Earth, > using a great circle calculation. I was thinking of using GEO::Great_Circle or >something of that > ilk. >
I'm not a geograph, but a module calculating distances of the earth, could have the name GEO::Distance But do you really calculate the distance on the earth, or the distance on a sphere (as the earth seems approximately to be) between two coordinates ? In that case I would suggest: Math::Sphere::Distance (That could also have the advantage, that this module would be used by non-geographs) Cheerio, Janek
