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Re: Help - build table of POINT
Posted by: Tom Pouce
Date: October 25, 2008 12:22PM

The command
UPDATE cities SET coord=GeomFromWKB(Point(lng,lat));
works :)

Thanks for that. But then when I calculate the distance between 2 points, it doesn't sound right:

SELECT
c1.name, c2.name,
12734 * ASIN(SQRT(POWER(SIN((c1.lat - c2.lat)*pi()/360), 2) + COS(c1.lat * pi()/180) * COS(c2.lat * pi()/180) * POWER(SIN((c1.lng - c2.lng) * pi()/360), 2))) AS distance2,
12734*GLength(LineFromWKB(LineString(AsBinary(c1.coord), AsBinary(c2.coord)))) AS distance3
FROM cities c1, cities c2
WHERE (c1.name = 'T') AND (c2.name='C');

+----------+--------+-----------------+-----------------+
| name | name | distance2 | distance3 |
+----------+--------+-----------------+-----------------+
| T | C | 421.84073313958 | 52673.696420869 |
| T | C | 424.31784079402 | 52803.474042613 |
| T | C | 418.81561568877 | 52412.117428389 |
+----------+--------+-----------------+-----------------+

The distance2 is correct in km.
I don't know what distance3 is worth. There is no linear factor between the 2.

Any idea of what's going on?

Thanks again.

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