[Freegis-list] Distance on the surface on the spherical Earth

[Martin Desruisseaux]

Hello Ahmed

You are looking for "orthodromic distance". You will find code for that 
in the "orthodromicDistance" method in the attached Java class.

     Regards,

         Martin Desruisseaux.


Ahmed Gelchu wrote:
 > Dear Friends,
 >
 > I need to compute the shortest distance between two points on the
 > surface of the earth. In short, I am looking for a software that
 > could compute distance between two points, given the lat-long
 > coordinates for the two points? any help is appreciated
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Ahmed A. Gelchu
 > The University of British Columbia, Canada
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