GPS

[Jay Ashworth]

I'm wrong, you win, shut up.  :-)

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Rasmussen" <ras at anzio.com>
> To: "Jay Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 7:44:55 PM
> Subject: Re: GPS
> Jay, I think if you read the citation you might need to check your
> beliefs.
> 
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bob Rasmussen" <ras at anzio.com>
> >
> >> This caught my geeky interest. A quick google of "distance between
> >> long
> >> lat coordinates" produces several possible sites giving and
> >> explaining the
> >> formula(s). The first one looks good (if you can do trig in
> >> filePro):
> >> http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
> >
> > I believe you need *hyperbolic* trig to do this accurately over more
> > than a
> > couple hundred miles or so.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra
> > --
> > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra at baylink.com
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Jay R. Ashworth                  Baylink                       jra at baylink.com
Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates       http://www.bcp38.info          2000 Land Rover DII
St Petersburg FL USA      BCP38: Ask For It By Name!           +1 727 647 1274