This might be what you're looking for : <a href="http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html">http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html</a><br><br>Look for the section : <b><b>Destination point given distance and bearing from start point<br>
<br></b></b>-Lennox<b><b><br><br></b></b><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 28, 2008 7:55 PM, Ray Gardener <<a href="mailto:rayg@daylongraphics.com">rayg@daylongraphics.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you can use UTM or similar coords, then<br><br>x = cos(heading) * distance + start_pos_x<br>y = sin(heading) * distance + start_pos_y<br><br>Assuming heading in clockwise radians with north = up.<br><br>Then you can inverse transform (x, y) from UTM to lat/lon.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>Ray<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>Meek, Allan (Contractor) wrote:<br>> This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm hoping I might find some help<br>> here.<br>><br>
> I have a start lat/long position, a distance, and a heading. Is there an<br>> easy way (in OGR or elsewhere) to calculate the end lat/long position<br>> (after travelling the given distance on the given heading)?<br>
><br>> I have a working formula for calculating the distance and heading<br>> between two lat/long positions, but I wanted to see if I can get around<br>> having to rework this to solve my problem.<br>><br>
> Any help would be appreciated!<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Allan<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> gdal-dev mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
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