Re: Help calculating distance

From: Dave Patton (none_at_none.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:54:17 GMT

dan@danceholidays.com (DanTg) wrote in
news:3f97ec72.0406140841.36bb37a3@posting.google.com:

> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone help with a calculation to work out the distance in miles
> between two points. Any help would be fantastic.
>
> From:
> Easting: 367688
> Nothing: 202174
> Longitude: -2.468
> Latitude: 51.717
>
> To:
> Easting: 368539
> Nothing: 203203
> Longitude: -2.456
> Latitude: 51.726
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Chapman

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cvm/latlongdist.html
Distance between 51.717N 2.468W and 51.726N 2.456W is
0.8074 statute miles
This calculation assumes the earth is a perfect sphere
with a radius of 3963.1 statute miles

Of course you could have entered the points as waypoints
in a GPS, created a 2-waypoint Route, and found the
distance that way.

Or you could have downloaded G7ToWin:
http://www.gpsinformation.org/ronh/g7towin.htm
and created two waypoints, set one as the "reference"
waypoint, and read the distance from the G7ToWin screen. 

-- 
Dave Patton
Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
http://www.confluence.org/
My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/

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