SQL Server Geography datatype nearest point on line

Question

I am trying to build a query, but I am having some difficulty.

I have a SQL Server 2008 database with a table that includes, among other fields, a geography field that d

Answer 1

How are your road segments stored? lat and long? if so, you can convert them to radians, and do the math:

• http://www.zipcodeworld.com/samples/distance.mssql.html
• http://www.petefreitag.com/item/622.cfm
• http://johndyer.name/post/2005/07/11/LatitudeLongitude-Distance-Calculation-in-SQL-Server.aspx