Optimizing Large-Scale Geodesic Distance Calculations

The article presents techniques for accelerating geodesic distance calculations across millions of coordinate pairs—such as vectorized formulas, spatial indexing, parallel processing, and approximation algorithms—that dramatically cut CPU time and memory usage while preserving required accuracy for large‑scale geographic analyses.

Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Meituan Technology Team
Optimizing Large-Scale Geodesic Distance Calculations

Computing distances for millions of coordinates is costly; optimization reduces CPU usage.

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