From: Paul Ramsey <pramsey@cleverelephant.ca>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 17:10:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Change radius figure to common average.
X-Git-Tag: 1.5.0b1~389
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a13d8da8432e7a59f5031308b8e830ac367eb089;p=postgis

Change radius figure to common average.


git-svn-id: http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/trunk@4626 b70326c6-7e19-0410-871a-916f4a2858ee
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diff --git a/postgis/geography.h b/postgis/geography.h
index 931431be5..77c2539fa 100644
--- a/postgis/geography.h
+++ b/postgis/geography.h
@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@
 ** Spherical radius.
 ** Moritz, H. (1980). Geodetic Reference System 1980, by resolution of the XVII General Assembly of the IUGG in Canberra.
 ** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_radius
+** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Geodetic_System
 */
 
-#define WGS84_RADIUS 6371009.0
-/* For reference, the old value used in distance_sphere was 6370986.884258304 */
-
+#define WGS84_MAJOR_AXIS 6378137.0
+#define WGS84_MINOR_AXIS 6356752.314245
+#define WGS84_RADIUS ((2.0 * WGS84_MAJOR_AXIS + WGS84_MINOR_AXIS ) / 3.0)
 
 /**********************************************************************
 **  Useful functions for all GEOGRAPHY handlers.