RE: Lat/Long RPGLE, and tornadoes

we are doing something somewhat similar but we are working on a street level 
node operation where we calculate the distance between two points, generally 
less than 10 miles apart, which we use to calculate routing.

It is more or less a work of theory at this point.


On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:51:39 -0600, Ed Murphy wrote
> Douglas,
> In a previous life, I worked for National Trucking Company.
> I took the sat(Qualcomm) Lon/Lat and cross referenced it to a Mile Maker
> map point, and got a pretty good route re-creation for operations to
> review.
> Ed
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas W. Palme
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:51 AM
> To: RPG Group
> Subject: Lat/Long RPGLE, and tornadoes
> 
> After a night of three tornadoes, roof damage, water damage, debris
> everywhere, its time to concentrate on something other than insurance
> claims.....
> 
> Has anyone ever calculated distance with Lat/Long in RPGLE?
> 
> I do not believe that RPGLE natively supports Cosine, sine, etc.
> 
> Any help in pointing me in the correct direction would be appreciated.
> 
> If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.
> 
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If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.