Re: [BUGS] BUG #6556: earthdistance module has lacking documentation

2012-03-29 Thread Gavin Flower
On 29/03/12 12:36, Kasper Sandberg wrote: Yeah I will try provide a patch. I am not entirely certain how the wording should be, but I only understood that the cube based aproach is by default in meters after testing it out, though now of course it occurs to me that of course it is, given the

Re: [BUGS] BUG #6556: earthdistance module has lacking documentation

2012-03-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
Yeah I will try provide a patch. I am not entirely certain how the wording should be, but I only understood that the cube based aproach is by default in meters after testing it out, though now of course it occurs to me that of course it is, given the math involved and that earth() is in meters

Re: [BUGS] BUG #6556: earthdistance module has lacking documentation

2012-03-28 Thread Kevin Grittner
wrote: > looking at > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/earthdistance.html > > it looks very scarce and missing, and conflicting, some things > operate based on miles, others meters. it also doesnt specify the > units used for earth_distance() which seems to be meters. Any chance you

[BUGS] BUG #6556: earthdistance module has lacking documentation

2012-03-25 Thread kontakt
The following bug has been logged on the website: Bug reference: 6556 Logged by: Kasper Sandberg Email address: kont...@sandberg-consult.dk PostgreSQL version: 9.1.3 Operating system: - Description: looking at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/earthdistance.ht