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Subject:        great circle distances
Date:   Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:32:54 +0200
From:   Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance
this gives formulae for calculating great circle distances given lat
and lon of points.
it should be easy to programme these into Excel say, if that is where
you have a list of lat/longs.


Dr Brendan Whyte
Geography Department
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ISRAEL
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