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Can someone show me how to calculate the distance between these two latitude and longitude points?

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Can someone show me how to calculate the distance between these two latitude and longitude points?

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It’s slightly above my head but I found this online it might help: Because of the near-spherical shape of the Earth (technically an oblate spheroid) , calculating an accurate distance between two points requires the use of spherical geometry and trigonometric math functions. However, you can calculate an approximate distance using much simpler math functions. For many applications the approximate distance calculation provides sufficient accuracy with much less complexity. The following approximate distance calculations are relatively simple, but can produce distance errors of 10 percent of more. These approximate calculations are performed using latitude and longitude values in degrees. The first approximation requires only simple math functions: Approximate distance in miles: sqrt(x * x + y * y) where x = 69.1 * (lat2 – lat1) and y = 53.0 * (lon2 – lon1) You can improve the accuracy of this approximate distance calculation by adding the cosine math function: Improved approximate dista

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