Function for Calculating Latitude/Longitude

[petperson]

Hi!
Am looking to see if some type of custom function, plug-in, etc exists like a geocalculator to calculate latitude/longitude. Any ideas??
Thanks!

 

[JRO061601]

Calculate from what? What does your source data look like, and how do you want it to appear after the calculation?

 

[petperson]

Sorry for the confusion - I have a bit of it myself! What I need to do is: if I have 2 sites, each identified by latitude and longitude (decimals), I would like to perform a calculation based on the lat/long and return a value of distance between the 2 points - and then have that value converted to either feet or miles(preferred).

So I don't need to calculate lat/long- we already have that- its to calculate the distance between 2 points.

Thanks!

 

[JRO061601]

in that case, you can probably build out the formula in the metric editor using math functions, since it's really just a trigonometry calculation. i found this through google:

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/51722.html

i also found this, which looks like it will help you validate your results:

http://www.decimaldegrees.com/

 

[petperson]

I'll check it out...thanks!