Message-ID: <432887E6.2070600@echip.com>
Date: 2005-09-14T20:28:22Z
From: Bob Wheeler
Subject: Converting coordinates to actual distances
In-Reply-To: <845AADAC1106E44996327D62097E4C6B6F5369@et.ad.sdsc.edu>
Paul Brewin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been searching for a method of converting Lat/Lon decimal
> coordinates into actual distances between points, and taking into
> account the curvature of the earth. Is there such a package in R? I've
> looked at the GeoR package, but this does not seem to contain what I am
> looking for. Ideally the output would be a triangular matrix of
> distances.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul Brewin
>
>
>
> Paul E Brewin (PhD)
> Center for Research in Biological Systems
> University of California San Diego
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>
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>
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See http://www.meridianworlddata.com/Distance-Calculation.asp. The
calculations are trivial.
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