[Mapserver-users] distanceToPoint in kilometres?

[Erich Schroeder]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
> > One possible way of doing that would be to convert your 2 lat/long 
> > positions to a projected unit system and then use the distanceToPoint 
> > (or your local code) to compute the distance.
> > You can use the php_proj utility (which uses Proj.4) to do your 
> > conversion. If you are builing mapserver yourself, the file is 

Whoa, I must have missed this before. What is the "php_proj" utility?

Erich

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