Euclidean distance used with geodetic coordinates to find nearest neighbours in K-D tree
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thampiman commented
The geodetic coordinates (lat,lon,alt) are used in the K-D tree and the nearest neighbour is found using the Euclidean distance function. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9281998 on why this is a bad idea for nearest neighbour search.