Re: [GENERAL] distance calculation usng lat and long in miles

2006-03-08 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:10:39AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the lat and long data. I have created the geom column based on the > lat and long data as below. > > > UPDATE property SET geom =GeometryFromText('POINT(' || long || > ' ' || lat || ')',4326); This looks like Po

Re: [GENERAL] distance calculation usng lat and long in miles

2006-03-08 Thread Uwe C. Schroeder
There is the earthdistance package in the contrib directory. You may want to look into that. On Wednesday 08 March 2006 09:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the lat and long data. I have created the geom column based on the > lat and long data as below. > > > UPDATE property SET geom =Ge

Re: [GENERAL] distance calculation usng lat and long in miles

2006-03-08 Thread brew
> I am calculating the distance as below > > select distance(geom1, geom2)* 69.055 > > > It seems to be right. But I want to make sure. One way to calculate is the Great Circle Distance, that's the way the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) uses to calculate distance between two Radio Stati

[GENERAL] distance calculation usng lat and long in miles

2006-03-08 Thread sunithab
I have the lat and long data. I have created the geom column based on the lat and long data as below. UPDATE property SET geom =GeometryFromText('POINT(' || long || ' ' || lat || ')',4326); Now I have the geom columns in two tables I am calculating the distance as below select distan