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And when Haversine isn't accurate enough: Vincenty's method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenty%27s_formulae

Also, another reference for both methods with calculators! Vicenty: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-vincenty.html Haversine: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html

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If you need a library to do this, check out GeographicLib. It's written by C. F. F. Karney the same guy who developed an algorithm and wrote a scientific paper about improving Vincenty's formulae for performance and fixing issues at nearly antipodal points.

It has good implementations in C++, C# and Javascript.

https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/html/

Minor point but I know c# has a GeoCoordinate class into the framework Dlls. It also contains methods to calculate distance between points. Many .net Devs I've worked with didn't know about it. I think it came out first in .net 4.0.

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