How do I find the center of a number of geographic points?

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dvorak picture dvorak · Sep 24, 2008 · Viewed 15.9k times · Source

If I have a series of points as longitude and latitude, how would I calculate the center of all of those points?

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dvorak picture dvorak · Sep 24, 2008

Geomidpoint covers 3 different methods for calculating this.

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