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Re: Mileage of rhumb line compared to mileage of great circle
From: Andrew Nikitin
Date: 2011 Jun 3, 18:17 -0700
From: Andrew Nikitin
Date: 2011 Jun 3, 18:17 -0700
gl wrote:
> but the rhumb line formula is more complex
What do you mean "more complex"? It is dist=60*(lat2-lat1)/cos(true_course)
(Nice find on the table, though)
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