Re: [help] distance function using the great-circle distance formula
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Date: November 10, 2008 05:28AM
You were accepting POINT as arguments, and then calling geomFromText again, corrected version:
CREATE FUNCTION distance(a POINT, b POINT) RETURNS double
DETERMINISTIC
COMMENT 'Spatial distance function using the great-circle distance formula (in km)'
RETURN ( 6378
* acos(
sin( radians(X(a)) ) * sin( radians(X(b)) )
+ cos( radians(X(a)) ) * cos( radians(X(b)) )
* cos( radians(Y(b)) - radians(Y(a)) )
)
)
A simple optimisation would be to store x() and y() results of a and b too.
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