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How long is a piece of string?
Posted by: Andrew Dodson
Date: August 18, 2009 10:51AM

I've read alot of the documentation on mysql site which fail to mention the unit of measurement returned.

KM, Miles, Acres, Hops, Skips or as big as your back garden?

In particular i'm trying to recreate one such offender the "Distance() function" from what i believe to be commonly recreated like so

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SELECT GLength(LineStringFromWKB(LineString(AsBinary(GeomFromText('POINT(40.756054 -73.986951)')),
AsBinary(GeomFromText('POINT(51.5001524 -0.1262362)'))))) AS distance
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OUTPUT:
74.6

In this example i'm trying to find the distance between New York and London, which is about 3,500miles or 5600KM.

WTF is 74.6?

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