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Re: st: Identify Neighbor Regions with Latitudes and Longitudes
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Brendan Halpin <[email protected]> 
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Re: st: Identify Neighbor Regions with Latitudes and Longitudes 
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Sun, 23 Sep 2012 10:50:29 +0100 
On Sat, Sep 22 2012, ��wrote:
> Is it possible to identify all neighboring cities, NOT the nearest
> cities with just latitudes and longitudes? 
You need to convert lat/lon pairs to distances: there is an interesting
summary of the various ways of doing this at
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html. What is referred to
there as the equirectangular projection is probably accurate enough. 
But first you need to make a data-set of city-pairs. That seems to be a
job for the -joinby- command.
Brendan
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