On Jun 13, 9:56 am, Daniel Hilton <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 June 2010 06:24, Tyler Andersen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to figure out how to take two Point objects and determine > > the distance between them. > > > It seems that it is trivial to search the DB (well, provided that I'm > > not using mySQL, which I am) to filter by distance, however, that's > > not what I'm looking for at the moment. > > > I have a set of Point objects, and I'd like to compute the distance in > > miles for each. > > > For Point objects a, b, one can "a.distance(b)", however, a number is > > returned not a Distance object. I'm having trouble finding > > documentation on what this value represents (I could perhaps plug it > > into D(????=a.distance(b)).mi). > > Try this query on the Geodjango list:http://groups.google.com/group/geodjango
Thanks, I'll re-post there. > > But to try and answer your question: > > Are you trying to get the distance of a set of objects from a point? > > So for example, say you were looking for houses from a railway > station? Or are you looking at finding the distance between each of a > set of points that have an order? Like waypoints on a path? > > As for what metric it returns, I'd say have a look at the documentation > here:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/db-api/#distance... For simplicity, I'd just like to address the case of measuring the distance between two points. No DB involved. Tyler > > Hope that helps, > Cheers, > Dan > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- > Dan Hilton > ============================www.twitter.com/danhiltonwww.DanHilton.co.uk > ============================ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
