Distance between two places on the earth Calculator
Calculates the distance and azimuth between two places from latitudes and longitudes. | |||
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place A(x1, y1)、place B(x2, y2) |
Distance between two places on the earth
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- Purpose of use
- Determining the draft order for my fantasy football league by having people pick any city in the world, then using random.org to generate a random coordinate. Draft order is assigned based on each city's distance from that coordinate.
[1] 2019/05/11 08:13 Male / 30 years old level / Others / Very /
- Purpose of use
- see how far away the northernmost point of the european electric grid is from the northernmost point of the north american electric grid
[2] 2019/05/07 21:36 Female / 20 years old level / An engineer / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Hobby
- Comment/Request
- Why does the compass not point exactly due east or due west when I choose the same latitude from point A to point B near the Equator?
[3] 2019/03/22 23:37 Male / 50 years old level / Self-employed people / Very /
- Purpose of use
- I wanted to be able to tell someone "You are literally 10 thousand miles away!" ...and actually know what I was talking about. Now I can do that. So....bragging rights? ;)
[4] 2019/03/19 06:59 Male / 40 years old level / Others / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Wanted to compare the distance between extreme points (N/S) of two countries.
- Comment/Request
- Great public service and easy to use (but had to transform degrees/minutes/seconds into decimals myself).
[5] 2019/01/20 21:05 Male / 40 years old level / A teacher / A researcher / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Writing a book.
[6] 2018/12/26 23:24 Male / 60 years old level or over / A retired person / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Check my distance from an earthquake epicenter.
[7] 2018/10/10 04:22 Male / 20 years old level / High-school/ University/ Grad student / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Measure the distance to an earthquake epicenter and knowing the time I felt it, confirm the speed of the seismic wave
[8] 2018/08/27 09:00 Male / 30 years old level / An engineer / Useful /
- Purpose of use
- research flat earth
[9] 2018/08/25 11:08 Male / 20 years old level / Elementary school/ Junior high-school student / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Twofold. To check if you used altitude in your calculation (you don''t) and to mercilessly rip off your code or formulae if you did. Still, nice bit of code.
[10] 2018/05/23 11:08 Male / 40 years old level / An office worker / A public employee / A little /
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