Hi Monte,
in your mail you don't show the complete Lat/Long information
(you need N/S for Lat, and E/W for Long). I suppose that you
didn't include them, but you need them for what follows.
Try the Haversine formula I use to get distances between 2
points. You first have to convert your Lat/Long into Radians.
I got my co-ordinates (corresponding to a city) from a data
base, and converted them to radians first.
Let's assume you have your Lat and Long co-ordinates in
fields MyLatitude and MyLongitude, and the direction in fields
MyNS and MyEW, and you want the radian answer in fields
MyRadLatitude and MyRadLongitude, you convert to radians
by :
set numberFormat to 0.000000000000 -- We need precision here !
--
-- Convert Latitude and Logitude from degrees to Radians
-- (Latitude and Longitude must be valid co-ordinates).
--
-- This is in preparation for the calculation of distances between
-- two point on the earths surface.
--
-- These co-ordinates must be converted into Radians to use them
in
-- my Haversine formula.
--
put field MyLatitude into LVWork1
put LVWork1 * 0.017453293 into LVIntermed1
put LVIntermed1 into field MyRadLatitude
put field MyLongitude into LVWork2
put LVWork2 * 0.017453293 into LVIntermed2
put LVIntermed2 into field MyRadLongitude
if field MyNS = "S" then put - field MyRadLatitude into field
MyRadLatitude
if field MyEW = "W" then put - field MyRadLongitude into field
MyRadLongitude
Then, using function :
Function RFHaversine PVLat1,PVLong1,PVLat2,PVLong2
--global
LVRadiusOfTheEarth,LVLat1,LVLong1,LVLat2,LVLong2,LVInt1,LVInt2,LVWork1,L
VWork2,LVWork3
--
-- V1 for Hypercard - 2003/06/28 - 18:00 no atan2 function
available in Hypercard.
-- V2 for Revolution - 2006/02/24 - 11:23 use atan2 function
available in Revolution.
--
-- Use Haversine two-argument Inverse Tangent Function to
calculate
-- the distance between two geographic locations (cities).
--
-- The two geographic locations represent cities or towns in my
-- City Stack. The pre-calling sequence has already identified
-- the two cities, and extracted their locations in Radians.
--
-- Input Parameters :
--
-- Latitude and Longitude of location 1 in Radians
(PVLat1,PVLong1).
-- Latitude and Longitude of location 2 in Radians
(PVLat2,PVLong2).
--
-- The Haversine formula is :
--
-- dlon = lon2 - lon1 where lon1 and lon2 are longitudes of two
cities.
-- dlat = lat2 - lat1 where lat1 and lat2 are latitudes of two
cities.
-- a = (sin(dlat/2))^2 + cos(lat1) * cos(lat2) * (sin(dlon/2))^2
-- c = 2 * atan2( sqrt(a), sqrt(1-a) )
-- d = R * c where R is the radius of the earth in
kilometres.
--
set numberFormat to 0.000000000000 -- Heavy precision required here !
put 6367 into LVRadiusOfTheEarth -- Generally accepted Radius
of the Earth
put PVLat1 into LVLat1
put PVLong1 into LVLong1
put PVLat2 into LVLat2
put PVLong2 into LVLong2
put LVLong2 - LVLong1 into LVInt1
put LVLat2 - LVLat1 into LVInt2
put (sin(LVInt2/2))^2 + cos(LVLat1) * cos(LVLat2) * (sin(LVInt1/2))^2
into LVWork1
put 2 * atan2(sqrt(LVWork1),sqrt(1-LVWork1)) into LVWork2
put LVRadiusOfTheEarth * LVWork2 into LVWork3
--
-- We now have the distance in kilometres in LVWork3.
--
put round(LVWork3,3) into LVWork3 -- Kilometres to 3 decimal
points.
return LVWork3
end RFHaversine
You can get the distance between your two points with :
put RFHaversine (LVRadLat1,LVRadLong1,LVRadLat2,LVRadLong2) into
Distance
Either set the radius of the Earth to metres, or remove the
point in the kilometre answer field and "Bobs your Uncle !"
If anybody else is interested, I have a stack containing data
for 4000 cities and the possibility of calculating the distance
between any two cities, with up to 6 city stopovers if necessary.
(its got 4001 cards and is 1.6 Mb).
I hope this fills your requirements.
Best from Paris
-Francis
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