On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 17:55:31 -0600,
Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 07:09:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > mike cox <mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com> writes:
> > > The distance from Portland to Seattle is not 128862
> > > miles.
> >
> > How about 128.8 kilometers? The earthdistance docs say it's in meters
> > unless you've redefined the base unit.
>
> 128.8 kilometers is about 80 miles; the distance from Portland to
> Seattle is more like 150 miles.
>
> > > earth_distance(ll_to_earth('122.55688','45.513746'),ll_to_earth('122.396357','47.648845'));
>
> I haven't played with earthdistance, but I'd guess that the arguments
> to ll_to_earth should be (latitude, longitude) instead of (longitude,
> latitude).
I double checked to make sure the README file says the right thing and it
does say that latitude is the first argument and longitude the second.
So it just looks like the arguments were given in the wrong order.