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Cosine vs haversine formulas
From: Robert VanderPol II
Date: 2017 Nov 18, 17:33 -0800
From: Robert VanderPol II
Date: 2017 Nov 18, 17:33 -0800
What are the relative advantages of the cosine vs formulas?
Cosine formula is computationally faster but requires more precision than the haversine formula.
As I understand it for manual computation haversines have significantly smaller tables, easier math steps but also more math steps.
For computer implementation Cosine is more accurate and takes about 2/3 the time to calc but requires that what ever language you are using be able to handle the acos function well which is not always the case. https://gis.stackexchange.com/questi...ing-distance-b
As I understand it for manual computation haversines have significantly smaller tables, easier math steps but also more math steps.
For computer implementation Cosine is more accurate and takes about 2/3 the time to calc but requires that what ever language you are using be able to handle the acos function well which is not always the case. https://gis.stackexchange.com/questi...ing-distance-b
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