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Re:MongoDB Interactive Geospatial Tutorial by mathias_10gen on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @11:47AM (#2411380)
If you haven't seen it already, a quick Google hack for computing the radians to input into MongoDB:

http://www.google.com/search?q=50+km+%2F+radius+of+earth http://www.google.com/search?q=50+miles+%2F+radius+of+earth

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Re:MongoDB Interactive Geospatial Tutorial by joelhaasnoot on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @04:21PM (#2412535)
Yes, my code is just range/6418 or so. It just produces unexpectedly slow results when you don't realize :)
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