Distance between two 3D point in geodjango (postgis)

问题

I have the following problem:
I created two points, for example:

SRID=3857;POINT Z (62780.8532226825 5415035.177460473 100)
SRID=3857;POINT Z (62785.8532226825 5415035.177460473 70)

As you can see, there is 5m difference in X coordinates, and 30m in Z coordinates. When I run a.distance(b) in django shell, it returns 5, which is wrong.

However, whenIi run in a psql shell:

SELECT ST_3DDistance(a.coordinates, b.coordinates)
FROM restapi_entityxyz a, restapi_entityxyz b
WHERE a.external_id='6841zef1561' AND b.external_id='1G23Fzd';

It returns:

st_3ddistance
------------------
 30.4138126514911

Which is the correct answer.

Is it a lack of functionality in geodjango or a bug?
Should I use a custom library to perform such a calculation?

My environment is the following:

• Python 3.5,
• Django,
• postgresql 9.4 + postgis
• gdal and a lot of python libraries.

回答1:

The django distance method is not for calculating the distance of 3D points (with elevation) but of 2D.

We can work around that by creating a custom 3d distance calculation method, like the one described here: Calculating distance between two points using latitude longitude and altitude (elevation)

• Let:
  polar_point_1 = (long_1, lat_1, alt_1)
  and
  polar_point_2 = (long_2, lat_2, alt_2)

• Translate each point to it's Cartesian equivalent by utilizing this formula:

  x = alt * cos(lat) * sin(long)
  y = alt * sin(lat)
  z = alt * cos(lat) * cos(long)
  

  and you will have p_1 = (x_1, y_1, z_1) and p_2 = (x_2, y_2, z_2) points respectively.

• Finally use the Euclidean formula:

  dist = sqrt((x_2-x_1)**2 + (y_2-y_1)**2 + (z_2-z_1)**2)
  

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Confirmed solution of a similar issue from the second part of my answer here: 3d distance calculations with GeoDjango

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40024322/distance-between-two-3d-point-in-geodjango-postgis