[postgis-users] length_spheroid problem

[David Blasby]

Wood Brent wrote:

> env2003=# select length_spheroid('LINESTRING(0 0,1 1)',
> 'SPHEROID["WGS84",6378137,298.25728]');
>  length_spheroid
> ------------------
>  156899.568401239
> (1 row)

I get this too.

> env2003=# select length_spheroid('LINESTRING(178 -43, 179 -43)',
> 'SPHEROID["WGS84",6378137,298.25728]');
>  length_spheroid
> -----------------
>              NaN
> (1 row)

I get 81540.4863443025.

I recently made a bunch of improvements to the length_spheroid functions 
- you might want to get the latest CVS version of PostGIS.