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Old February 1st, 2008, 05:49
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Re: Lat / Long

lat/long gets stored in the location-table, in fields "lat" and "lon" (Number 10,5).
On the "same city with diff lat/long", usually cities have more then one lat/long, take "Chennai" as an example.
The city isnt mandatory (neither is lat/long), because OTM wont necessarily need it to calculate transit times. But if you want OTM to calculate the distance between 2 Loc's, it needs lat/long to do so; in the background it uses a formula to include the curve of the surface and all these things to calculate the most realistic distance between to pairs of lat/long.


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Oliver
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