[Mapserver-users] distanceToPoint in kilometres?

[Steve Lime]

Also note that mapscript itself has project methods defined for points
and shapes if MapScript is built with Proj.4, at least the Swig'd
version does...

Steve

>>> Erich Schroeder <erich at museum.state.il.us> 11/3/2003 4:10:17 PM
>>>
Nevermind, I found it. I just had never heard of it before.

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Erich Schroeder wrote:

> 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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