Distances.

November 21, 2007 | 10 comments

I need help. Can anyone please give me a hint how I can find the distance between any two places on the globe? Google Maps doesn’t seem to do the trick.

  1. Nils on November 21, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    Use Google Earth.

  2. true cowboy on November 21, 2007 at 2:40 pm

    Ah. Not bad, either.

    I needed a solution badly and this helped: determine the latitude and longitude (which can be retrieved from Google Maps with a little trick) and apply math. I had Microsoft Excel help me. And I used the method described at http://www.math.montana.edu/frankw/ccp/cases/Global-Positioning/spherical-coordinates/learn.htm to verify my findings.

  3. Nils on November 21, 2007 at 3:03 pm

    Well; Math would have been my second suggestion. But I figured you wanted an easy tool.

  5. Wolfgang on November 25, 2007 at 3:11 am

    This may help:
    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fkreis
    Multiply the value by 6371 km.

  6. N. on November 27, 2007 at 1:46 pm

    Sounds interesting.
    Are you planning a looooooooong trip? ;-)
    Cheers,
    Nini

    again posting as a bad bad porn star *ggg*

  7. true cowboy on November 27, 2007 at 10:05 pm

    No trips. Frag mich morgen!
    And stop the yit dot com shit, please!

  8. Nils on November 28, 2007 at 3:58 pm

    Not a bad porn star – A bad spammer?

  9. true cowboy on November 28, 2007 at 9:26 pm

    Nah, Nils, it’s neither. Just a tad ignorant.

  10. Nils on November 30, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    Hit him with a clue-by-four.

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