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Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith
These distances from origin are in meters. I know that a degree of lattitude is approx. 111km and a degree of longitude is approx 111km at the equator and goes to 0 at the poles. If I divide the distance the game gives me for lattitude by 111000 (in meters) the value comes close but doesn't match what the game puts in the messagebox (say for a radio contact report). The longitude part I haven't derived the mathematical formula for it yet. Can any math majors help me out here?
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Ignore reality!
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lat/long lines are 120km from each other in game, a square grid rather than the lines-on-a-globe they really are. Should make things much easier.