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OBSOLETE GEODESY PACKAGE SYMBOL
SpheroidalDistance
As of Version 7.0, 
has been superseded by GeoDistance.
has been superseded by GeoDistance.
gives the distance between points 
and 
on Earth using the spheroidal model of the planet.
Details
- To use
, you first need to load the Geodesy Package using 
. - A point
is expressed as a pair of numbers 
. - Each coordinate latitude and longitude can be given in degrees, or as
, or 
. - A negative value for a coordinate indicates that the coordinate is South latitude or West longitude.
- Distances are returned in kilometers.
- Note that the model is an approximation formula that only employs machine-precision computation. It is fairly accurate to distances of up to 10000 kilometers on the standard model of Earth.
- The following options can be given:
-
SemimajorAxis 6378.14 specify the length of the semimajor axis Eccentricity 0.081819 specify the value of the eccentricity - With the setting SemimajorAxis->length the length of the semimajor axis in the spheroidal model is assumed to be length kilometers.
- With the setting Eccentricity->v the eccentricity in the spheroidal model is assumed to be v.
