I work in a Geographic Coordinate System and using the “Generate Near Table” tool in ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop.
I want to calculate the distances that each feature of the point layer has to the closest point (vertex) of the coastline (the coastline is a line shapefile).
The distance method I use in GEODESIC, but I cannot understand what is the formula with which it calculates distances, since euclidean distance is used only in PLANAR for projected data.