[Manifold-l] Distance calculations

[adamw at manifold.net]

> ... it seems like the function is returning distance in degrees instead
> of meters.  Any idea why this should be?  According to the
> documentation it should be in meters.  Is this a projection issue?

Yes. The documentation is in error, too. The value returned by Geom.Distance is either in meters or in degrees depending on whether the projection of the Geom is metric or lat/lon. I will submit a request to correct the documentation.

Project the drawing to a metric projection.

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Adam Wachowski
Manifold Development Team