Re: [GENERAL] earthdistance results seem to be wrong.

2004-10-03 Thread Chris Mair
> select > earth_distance(ll_to_earth('122.55688','45.513746'),ll_to_earth('122.396357','47.648845')); > > The result I get is this: > > 128862.563227506 > > The distance from Portland to Seattle is not 128862 > miles. It is 128000m = 128km. Welcome to the metric system :) Bye, Chris. ---

[GENERAL] earthdistance results seem to be wrong.

2004-10-03 Thread Mike Cox
I'm running PostgreSQL 8.0 beta 1. I'm using the earthdistance to find the distance between two different latitude and logitude locations. Unfortunately, the result seems to be wrong. Here is what I'm doing: select earth_distance(ll_to_earth('122.55688','45.513746'),ll_to_earth('122.396357','47.6