Thread: compare longitude and latitude values of two tables
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Old 03-31-2008
Wilfried Wilfried is offline
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Re: compare longitude and latitude values of two tables
Hi,

to find the distance between 2 latitude / longitude positions is very easy. For Latitude 1 arc second is exact 1 sea mile. For Longitude you have to multiply with Cosine(Latitude).
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