[OpenLayers-Users] Utilize DWITHIN spatial filter in OpenLayers

[smilectt]

It depends on how precise and how general you want to be. Crudely, you
can divide the distance in meters
by 1860*60 (1 minute (latitude on sphere) = 1 nautical ml = 1.86km). Not
going to be accurate in mid/high latitudes. Better is convert point to
meters, create another point  maxDIS away in meters, convert that point
back to lat/long and then calculate maxDIS from pythag.

Thanks for your reply.
Sorry For my dumbness.
Yeah, I understand we can do some rough conversion here if precision is not
an issue.

But about the solution you mentioned convert point to meters. Not sure how
to do that, could you give me some hint?

Thanks : )

Sincerely Yours
Tingting Cao


On 6 January 2014 15:05, Phil Scadden [via OSGeo.org] <
ml-node+s1560n5096494h38 at n6.nabble.com> wrote:

> On 6/01/2014 4:28 p.m., smilectt wrote:
> > Some other topics mentioned the geoserver does not support specify the
> > distanceUnits and in fact the  maxDis is the degree distance to the
> center point.
> You got it. Actually, maxDis will be interpreted as being in the units
> of layers you are querying. If the native spatial reference is in
> degrees, then it will be interpreted as degrees.
> > I didn't quite get it, does the degree distance mean the
> longitude/latitude
> > degree differences with the point we are comparing?
> Yes.
> > but how can I fix it that I can filter them according to the value
> expressed
> > in meters (as it makes more sense)
> It depends on how precise and how general you want to be. Crudely, you
> can divide the distance in meters
> by 1860*60 (1 minute (latitude on sphere) = 1 nautical ml = 1.86km). Not
> going to be accurate in mid/high latitudes. Better is convert point to
> meters, create another point  maxDIS away in meters, convert that point
> back to lat/long and then calculate maxDIS from pythag.
>
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