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A point and a radius calculation -- please help!!! almurph@altavista.com 08-03-2007
Posted by almurph@altavista.com on August 3, 2007, 5:59 am
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Hi,

        Hope that you can help me. I have a wee problem that I can't figure
out.

        I have the X-Y co-ordiates of a point in latitude & longitude format
(specified in decimal-degress). I also have the distance in km of the
radius of a circle around this point.
        My question is this: is there a nice formula for calculating the 4
points around this central point using the radial distance? The points
that I'm interested in are the ones directly vertical & horizontal -
do you know what I mean? Forming a kind of a plus sign...

        Any comments/suggestions/pointers much appreciated.

Cheers,
Al.


Posted by willem van deursen on August 3, 2007, 9:17 am
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Hello Al,

basically what you are looking for is "Destination point given distance
and bearing from start point". Calculations for this can be performed at
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html, and this site also
gives the formulas to perform this calculations.

Willem

almurph@altavista.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
>         Hope that you can help me. I have a wee problem that I can't figure
> out.
>
>         I have the X-Y co-ordiates of a point in latitude & longitude format
> (specified in decimal-degress). I also have the distance in km of the
> radius of a circle around this point.
>         My question is this: is there a nice formula for calculating the 4
> points around this central point using the radial distance? The points
> that I'm interested in are the ones directly vertical & horizontal -
> do you know what I mean? Forming a kind of a plus sign...
>
>         Any comments/suggestions/pointers much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>


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Posted by user923005 on August 27, 2007, 4:56 pm
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wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hope that you can help me. I have a wee problem that I can't figure
> out.
>
> I have the X-Y co-ordiates of a point in latitude & longitude format
> (specified in decimal-degress). I also have the distance in km of the
> radius of a circle around this point.
> My question is this: is there a nice formula for calculating the 4
> points around this central point using the radial distance? The points
> that I'm interested in are the ones directly vertical & horizontal -
> do you know what I mean? Forming a kind of a plus sign...
>
> Any comments/suggestions/pointers much appreciated.

Proj.4 has code for great circle distance already programmed to give
your answers.
http://remotesensing.org/proj/


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