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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 21/01/2025 à 11:37, Thomas Knudsen
      via gdal-dev a écrit :<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">If you plan to transform to a different system
        anyway, I would definitely prefer going to geographical
        coordinates, and computing the length of the geodesic between
        the two points.</div>
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    <p>actually no need to do the explicit conversion to geographical
      coordinates, if the appropriate SRS is attached to your geometry,
      OGRGeometry::<span class="w"></span><span
        class="sig-name descname"><span class="n"><span class="pre">get_GeodesicLength</span></span></span><span
        class="sig-paren">() will do the right thing:</span>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gdal.org/en/stable/api/ogrgeometry_cpp.html#_CPPv4NK13OGRLineString18get_GeodesicLengthEPK19OGRSpatialReference">https://gdal.org/en/stable/api/ogrgeometry_cpp.html#_CPPv4NK13OGRLineString18get_GeodesicLengthEPK19OGRSpatialReference</a></p>
    <p>Python API:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gdal.org/en/stable/api/python/vector_api.html#osgeo.ogr.Geometry.GeodesicLength">https://gdal.org/en/stable/api/python/vector_api.html#osgeo.ogr.Geometry.GeodesicLength</a></p>
    <p>Python examples:
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/master/autotest/ogr/ogr_geom.py#L4560">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/master/autotest/ogr/ogr_geom.py#L4560</a></p>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
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My software is free, but my time generally not.</pre>
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