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Message Posted: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 @ 19:48:36 GMT

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The problem is the complicated trig needed to determine distance on a globe. For a given point on the globe X miles is a different amount of radians, so you really need to pass off A(lat, lon) and B(lat,lon), covert to radians, get distance, decide whether to keep it.

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