On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Lance Norskog <goks...@gmail.com> wrote: > are latitudes equidistant on the surface of the sphere?
Yes - each degree of latitude is ~69 miles. There is also a slight variation due to the earth not being a perfect sphere. -Yonik http://lucenerevolution.org Lucene/Solr Conference, Boston Oct 7-8
