On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 19:47 -0400, Sean Fulton wrote: > > 1 degree = 1 nautical mile = 1852 meters along any meridian. That > might work for latitude but it won't work for longitude.
Ok this is all well-documented on Wikipedia (search for "nautical mile") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile -- Regards, Chris Hermansen mailto:[email protected] tel+1.604.714.2878 · fax+1.604.733.0631 · mob+1.778.232.0644 Timberline Natural Resource Group · http://www.timberline.ca 401 · 958 West 8th Avenue · Vancouver BC · Canada · V5Z 1E5 _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
