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My big problem with the situation when there is a perpendicular. How do I calculate the distance from A to the randomly specified line segment BC when starting with the lattitude and longitude coordinates? Since the BC can have any orientation, I'm still struggling with a way to set up the...

clarifications good clarification questions. yes, HallsofIvy, for the distance between two points, I was talking about great circles. I have used some formulas I found to get the distance between the two points using lattitude and longitude measures. My concern is the shortest distance...

Hi, any advice out there on an interesting challenge (at least a challenge for me :-)? I am trying to come up with the easiest way to calculate the shortest distance between a single point and an arbitrary line. I want to start with lattitude and longitude coordinates for single point and...