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Sanchit
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi,

I have a dataset like this:

LatLong
51.39824-0.09366
51.52927-0.04583
51.541820.038004
51.41895-0.30561
51.59302-0.06998
51.60087-0.19474
51.55101-0.13727
51.50019-0.07006
51.48329-0.02586

I need to determine the minimum distance between these set of coordinates. I know about a function geodist() to determine distance between 2 coordinates, but not sure how to loop over through this set from the table.

 

Greatly appreciate your help.

Thanks!

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Reeza
Super User

You have to check distance between all unfortunately. 

Use a Cartesian join in SQL and the GEODIST() function. 

 

Heres a sketch of the code. 

 

 

Proc SQL;

Create table dist as

Select a.*,
            B.lat as lat2,
            B.long as long2,
            Geodist(....) as distance
From have as a
CROSS JOIN 
have as b
Order by distance;
Quit;

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LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20
Try the min() aggregate function in SQL, or PROC SUMMARY using the outcome oD geodist() as input.
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Reeza
Super User

You have to check distance between all unfortunately. 

Use a Cartesian join in SQL and the GEODIST() function. 

 

Heres a sketch of the code. 

 

 

Proc SQL;

Create table dist as

Select a.*,
            B.lat as lat2,
            B.long as long2,
            Geodist(....) as distance
From have as a
CROSS JOIN 
have as b
Order by distance;
Quit;
Sanchit
Fluorite | Level 6

Thanks a lot Reeza. It worked!

🙂

-Sanchit

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