Basic Examples (2) 

Find the successive distances between your location, Null Island, which is the area of ocean near Africa with 0 latitude and 0 longitude, the North and South Poles, and the antipode of your location:

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Convert to kilometers:

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Applications (13) 

A megacity, according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, is an urban agglomeration with 10 million inhabitants. Compute the positions for a list of megacities:

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Find the successive spatial distances for a list of megacities:

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Compare with the result of GeoDistanceList:

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Find the difference:

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Find the average decrease in distance if you could travel through the Earth:

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Find how fast it would take to travel this distance at the speed of light:

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Find the shortest path starting and ending at the two closest megacities to your location:

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Find the index of the cities:

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Find the shortest tour of all mega-cities:

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Compare the distances with GeoDistance over Earth's surface and GeoSpatialDistance through space:

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Find the difference:

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Evaluate how fast this would take to travel at the speed of light:

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Make a map of the cities with geo markers for each city:

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