[postgis-users] Distance function is not in meters

[Paul Ramsey]

distance_sphere(GeometryFromText('POINT(10 10)',4326),
GeometryFromText('POINT(11 11)',4326))

On 3/18/08, davidj2k <davidj2k at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  I am trying to find the distance from a point to a polygon object and when I
>  use the distance(geometry,geometry) function it returns something that is
>  not in meters, I have been doing searches and all the examples of using this
>  function shows it in meters but that is not what I am seeing for example if
>  I use
>
>  distance(GeometryFromText('POINT(10 10)',4326), GeometryFromText('POINT(11
>  11)',4326))
>
>  I get
>
>  1.4142135623731
>
>  How can I get this in meters? I need to do
>  distance < 1000 meters
>
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