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MajP

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As I said the VBA trig functions work in Radians not degrees. You must convert. Pass in degrees then convert inside your distance functions. Use the converted values in your function
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   Const decToRad = 3.14159265358979 / 180
   Const radiusOfEarth = 3963.1
   'radiusOfEarth =3963.1 statute miles, 3443.9 nautical miles, or 6378 km
   Dim radLatStart As Double
   Dim radLongStart As Double
   Dim radLatEnd As Double
   Dim radLongEnd As Double
   
   radLatStart = decLatStart * decToRad
   radLongStart = decLongStart * decToRad
   radLatEnd = decLatEnd * decToRad
   radLongEnd = decLongEnd * decToRad

The duplicates are not a big deal, until I figure out what is dragging down my implication. If I can get my array method to run as fast as your array method, then I should be able to make the KDTree much faster. In theory. As I said, I do the same method and algorithm as you show. The big difference is you use a 3 dimensions array to save ID, lat, long. I build an object called a LocationPoint. It has three properties ID, Lat, Long. My array is a one dimensioned array filled with LocationPoints. So you read the three dimensions as you loop, I read the properties inside the location point.
I believe in theory your implementation should be faster based on efficiency of memory location. I would expect that to be slightly faster not orders of magnitude faster. If that is truly the case then I do not think in VBA I can code the KDTree with any improvement since the algorithm may be faster, but the implementation using objects is not faster than an multidimensional array with a less efficient algorithm. You may be as good as you are going to get. but the implementation of the objects may not. This issue may be a shortcoming of VBA and not seen in other languages.
 

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Hi

Sorry, I haven't replied for a few days. I'll try your code ASAP.
 

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I have not had chance to relook at this either to see what is causing the poor performance. Not sure if I can do better than what you are currently seeing performance wise. It may be worth playing with it on your computer though.
 

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