...
To quote GH Hardy: "I am reluctant to intrude in a discussion concerning
matters of which I have no expert knowledge,..."
But, it seems to me that for each farm, you could create a quick screen
that would remove the polygon points that were unlikely to be close to
the farm.
If f_lat and f_long are the coordinates of the farm and the coordinates
for each polygon point are p_lat and p_long, then
gen fp_lat = f_lat - p_lat
gen fp_long = f_long - p_long
gen dist = sqrt(fp_lat^2 + fp_long^2)
qui sum dist, detail
keep if dist<`r(p5)'
If all your farms and lakes are in the UK, you would need to add a
constant to the longitudes before calculating the differences (modulo
180 or 360; I don't know how longitude is specified in the data).
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laura
Platchkov
Sent: Sunday, 13 September 2009 12:59 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: RE: exact command for distance ?
Well, Roy, do you have any idea of how long it will take if i have one
dataset with 800 points (farms) and the other, with 200'000 (points of
lakes lines) ???? Stata has been running the whole afternoon now, and I
am wondering whether I shouldn't maybe reduce the number of observaitons
of the second dataset...
Or Is there an amendment in the command that I could do in order for
STATA to compute only the distances from the farms to the nearest lakes,
and not from the points of the lakes to the nearest farms...?
Laura
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