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[Q]: How to calculate distance from GPS measurements [message #6099]

Fri, 22 March 1996 00:00

uuvince
Messages: 6
Registered: June 1991

Junior Member

I am working on a project where I will be receiving measurements from the Global
Positioning System, presumably latitude and longitude measurements, and I will
need to calculate the distances between the measurement points. The measurements
will all be taken over a region of only a few miles so I guess I could assume
the earth is flat over this region and just calculate the straight line
distance. But I was wondering if anyone could help me with a more mathematically
rigorous method for calculating distance from pairs of latitude/longitude
measurements?

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