Re: Google Maps Distance Between UK Postcodes

From:	Colin Guthrie	Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:14:52 +0000
Subject:	Re: Google Maps Distance Between UK Postcodes
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Boyd, Todd M. wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: tedd

Considering that my other profession is Geophysicist, I'm kind of up on those sort of things. The Earth is an oblate spheroid and the computation to include the curvature of the earth would be a bit more involved.
---8<--- snip But it's also NOT an oblate spheroid! :) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/08/ten-things-you -dont-know-about-the-earth/

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