Calculating distance from lat/long data

[David Nicolson]

There are resources on the web that do this, and many other things...

Here is a relevant section from "Martindale's The Reference Desk"
<http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html> (which has many many links to
sites that do things like wyat you're asking about, and more):
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators1A.html#HAM-DIST
The first one listed there seems appropriate:
http://www.best.com/~williams/gccalc.htm

They also have a compilation of a plethora of kinds of calculators available
here:
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html

They also have many links to language resources (dictionaries, translators,
etc.):
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Language.html

I don't think I've even scratched the surface of all they have at their
site, but it's a start...

Cheers,
Dave


On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:03:15 -0400, Alan Prather <alan at MSU.EDU> wrote:

>Can anyone recommend simple, and preferably free, software to calculate
>geographic distance between sets of latitude and longitude coordinates?
>
>
>Alan Prather
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