Distance between two latitude/longitudes
Posted on September 11, 2020. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: author:briang, great-circle, java, javascript, latitude, longitude, maths, navigation |
Usually, the great circle distance is used to find the distance between two points on the Earth’s surface. This method is only an approximation (with errors being less than 0.5% according to Wikipedia) because the Earth is not a perfect sphere. Vincenty solutions of geodesics on the ellipsoid demonstrates superior approximations (errors less than 1mm), […]
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