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A geodesic is the shortest path between two points on a curved surface; in this context applies to questions where the curved surface is the earth's surface.
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When calcuating distance between points on Earth why are my Haversine vs. Geodesic calculati...
See here for discussion of Haversine n Geodesic
As you can see I am off by five percent as the distances between points becomes large. Is this divergence due to rounding error in Haversine? … Do I indeed trust the Geodesic? …
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When calcuating distance between points on Earth why are my Haversine vs. Geodesic calculati...
I am getting much better agreement between Haversine and geodesic now:
On my actual dataset: …
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