Hi Thilo, I know nothing about the DP code so I can't comment on that.
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:58:24 +0200 Thilo Hannemann <thann...@gmx.de> wrote: > What I do not understand is the distance calculation. Anybody > with insight cares to have a look at it (or explain how it works?). > I'd assume that a distance calculation on a spherical surface would > involve lots of trigonometric functions - which the formula in the > code doesn't. Recently, Coord.distance() was replaced with a much speedier implementation because a lot of cpu cycles were being wasted there. The newer function appears to be accurate enough for our purposes. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev