[postgis-users] very inaccurate distance using "distance_spheroid" on geometric coordinates
Paul Ramsey
pramsey at refractions.net
Thu Oct 18 09:06:40 PDT 2007
ST_Distance_Sphere and ST_Distance_Spheroid return in meters, not
kilometers, so they think the distance is about 495km. What makes
you so sure that's wrong? I checked in a transformed projection and
got a similar result also.
On 18-Oct-07, at 7:19 AM, hzerres at aol.com wrote:
> id | astext
> ----+---------------------
> 1 | POINT(50.783 6.083)
> 2 | POINT(48.833 10.1)
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