title: Google Maps V3 API -- geometry library is using what distance measure?
body: <p>I'm using the google.maps.geometry.spherical's "computeDistanceBetween" function to get the distance between two points on a map.  I get a numeric value just fine, but does anyone know what units it's in?  (Meters?  Yards?)  And is it possible to pass a parameter into the function to return, say miles?  If there's a conversion utility function I'd be grateful to know of it.  </p>
  
  <p>I've looked at Google's API documentation but can't see anything about the units of measure being returned.  (I'm probably looking in the wrong place.)  Thanks for the help.</p>