Re: locating cities within a radius of another

From: Geoffrey <lists(at)serioustechnology(dot)com>
To: Oliver Kohll - Mailing Lists <oliver(dot)lists(at)gtwm(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: locating cities within a radius of another
Date: 2010-07-22 11:57:33
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Oliver Kohll - Mailing Lists wrote:
>
> On 21 Jul 2010, at 23:14, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com
> <mailto:mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>> wrote:
>
>> If you want something simple, and not requiring PostGIS, but plpgsql
>> instead, see:
>>
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2003-12/msg00193.php
>
> For completeness, the earthdistance module also provides the distance
> between two lat/longs, the point<@>point syntax is simple to use:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/earthdistance.html

Disgregard my last post, Surely as soon as I hit send, the light went
on... I'm looking at deriving my points for point <@> point from
ll_to_earth().

>
> Regards
> Oliver Kohll
>
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