[OpenLayers-Users] what is the Point.distanceTo(Point) return value??

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:01:53PM -0800, plen wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> 
> Thanks for the response.  It appears you are correct.  I tried your
> calculation and it appears to be in miles now.  I have a different (server
> side) algorithm for calculating the distance between two points and while
> both return a slightly different value, it is workable.

For non-trivial distances, you should probably use
OpenLayers.Util.distVincenty.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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