How Google Earth measures distances

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In yesterday’s post we mentioned that Google Earth’s measurements did not match ours which used the Haversine formula. So we decided to investigate a bit more. The Haversine formula assumes the earth is a perfect sphere and in our case we assumed the radius to be 6,378,137m. The earth is actually closer to an oblate […]

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