i'm trying geokit and loving it, but i'm seeing really odd stuff on distances, I'm wondering about the coordinates i've got in my DB. I don't think they're standard format, they look like this.
east 6'41.6 north 45'24.8
Can anyone advise please ?
I think geokit wants lat,lng as floats (or something it can easily convert into floats with to_f). It's hard to tell from the API whether distance_from is processed in rails or using SQL trig functions. Since geokit does a lot of processing on the database side rather than in rails, it may be easier if you can find some way to store your data in that format.
Also: this may be get you more expert help with geokit: http://groups.google.com/group/geokit
