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How was earth's approximate radius chosen #1816

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Meekohi opened this issue Jan 17, 2020 · 1 comment

Meekohi commented Jan 17, 2020

Why

turf/packages/turf-helpers/index.ts

Line 39 in 17002cc

export let earthRadius = 6371008.8;

It's so specific... how was it chosen?

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refactor distance calculations mapbox/mapbox-gl-js#9202

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mourner commented Jan 18, 2020

There was a discussion about it here: #635 (comment)

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