Re: [PHP] Finding an Address

You are right, there is more to it.

The incentive from me was to not further complicate a problem that by
itself can be very hard to solve.
but still, a more accurate measure van only determined by including these
concepts.

Kind regards/met vriendelijke groet,

Serge Fonville

http://www.sergefonville.nl

Convince Microsoft!
They need to add TRUNCATE PARTITION in SQL Server
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/417926/truncate-partition-of-partitioned-table


2013/2/28 Sean Greenslade <[email protected]>

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> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Serge Fonville <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> well, not exactly.
>> But I can help you (so can others) to go through code flow (it will
>> probably be tedious)
>>
>> you have a position you start and a certain distance from that point (in a
>> circle)
>> From thereon you substract start(x,y) from dest(x,y) by substracting x
>> from
>> x and y from y the diffence is the amount of degrees between the two
>> points
>> are apart, if you add instead you determine a point.
>>
>> so for example you are currently at long: 75, lat: 31 and you want to know
>> some point 6.9 miles away.
>> you start by adding 0 to 75 and 0.1 to 31 you then have one point (both
>> are
>> degrees and one degree is roughly 69 miles) you can also do the opposite,
>> add 0.1 to 75 and 0 to 31, you can also add 0.05 to both (again totaling
>> 0.1), mind though the values that total 0.1 are absolute, even though the
>> long/lat may be negative.
>>
>> The point is that the values added are combined the distance you want to
>> measure against.
>> From thereon you can determine if there is an address at the location
>> (using reverse geo-coding).
>> when increasing the number you add, you measure further and further
>> you'll have to do that all arround the point you started from
>>
>> more information about how long/lat works:
>> http://www.nationalatlas.gov/articles/mapping/a_latlong.html
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Kind regards/met vriendelijke groet,
>>
>> Serge Fonville
>>
>> http://www.sergefonville.nl
>>
>> Convince Microsoft!
>> They need to add TRUNCATE PARTITION in SQL Server
>>
>> https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/417926/truncate-partition-of-partitioned-table
>>
>> <snip />
>>
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> You should be careful of statements like "one degree is roughly 69 miles."
> While this is true for latitude, it is only true for longitude at the
> equator. To get the distance between two sets of latlon coordinates, you
> need to use the great circle equation:
>
> http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
>
>
> --
> --Zootboy
>
> Sent from some sort of computing device.
>