ST_DistanceSphere

PostGIS Project Steering Committee and contributors. (2026). ST_DistanceSphere.

Type

Web resource

Intellectual base

Web

Year

2026

Link

https://postgis.net/docs/ST_DistanceSphere.html

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Haversine Formula
  • PostGIS exposes this decision explicitly: its spherical-distance operation is faster but less accurate than its spheroidal counterpart

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