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[jira] [Updated] (SPARK-34410) Vincenty distance spark function

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-34410?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Darshan Jani updated SPARK-34410:
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    Affects Version/s:     (was: 3.1.2)
                       3.2.0

> Vincenty distance spark function
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-34410
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-34410
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 3.2.0
>            Reporter: Darshan Jani
>            Priority: Major
>
> Add new spark function to compute the distance between two geo-points using vincenty distance formula
> Vincenty uses the oblate spheroid whereas haversine uses unit sphere, this will give roughly
> 22m better accuracy (in worst case) than haversine
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenty%27s_formulae



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