{"issue":{"created_at":"2011-11-22T09:16:34Z","state":"open","updated_at":"2011-11-22T09:16:34Z","user":{"gravatar_id":"fb7e692f1e5e6a23a573abdf3e773b9e","id":35408,"url":"https://api.github.com/users/donaldpiret","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fb7e692f1e5e6a23a573abdf3e773b9e?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","login":"donaldpiret"},"comments":0,"body":"I'm surprised we don't get the option of choosing between a spherical and linear formula for calculating distances. For search-engines that need to query large amount of objects based on relatively small distances this makes a fairly big performance difference and other libraries like Geokit have this implemented throughout.","assignee":null,"number":142,"id":2315900,"labels":[],"pull_request":{"patch_url":null,"html_url":null,"diff_url":null},"title":"Choice between linear and spherical for distance_between","html_url":"https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder/issues/142","closed_at":null,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alexreisner/geocoder/issues/142","milestone":null},"action":"opened"}