[postgis-users] Distance function is not in meters

[David Jordan]

If I use sphere they have to both be points, the actual search I am doing is 
  distance(the_geom, GeometryFromText('POINT(10 10)',4326))
   
  the_geom field is a polygon or a multipolygon

Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
  distance_sphere(GeometryFromText('POINT(10 10)',4326),
GeometryFromText('POINT(11 11)',4326))

On 3/18/08, davidj2k wrote:
>
> I am trying to find the distance from a point to a polygon object and when I
> use the distance(geometry,geometry) function it returns something that is
> not in meters, I have been doing searches and all the examples of using this
> function shows it in meters but that is not what I am seeing for example if
> I use
>
> distance(GeometryFromText('POINT(10 10)',4326), GeometryFromText('POINT(11
> 11)',4326))
>
> I get
>
> 1.4142135623731
>
> How can I get this in meters? I need to do
> distance < 1000 meters
>
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