Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

#4431 new enhancement

Replace Spherical Distance Calcs with Approximations

Reported by: pramsey Owned by: pramsey
Priority: medium Milestone: PostGIS Fund Me
Component: postgis Version: master
Keywords: Cc:

Description

We are already doing this somewhat arbitrarily at very small distances, expanding the use and formalizing it could speed up geodetic calculations in local areas quite significantly.

https://blog.mapbox.com/fast-geodesic-approximations-with-cheap-ruler-106f229ad016

Change History (2)

comment:1 by pramsey, 5 years ago

Milestone: PostGIS 3.0.0PostGIS 3.1.0

comment:2 by pramsey, 4 years ago

Milestone: PostGIS 3.1.0PostGIS Fund Me
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