[Proj] Any access to geodetic[sic] functions ??

[Mikael Rittri]

Here is another useful resource: Chris Veness has coded Vincenty's formulas as JavaScript.  

distance: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-vincenty.html
direct:   http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-vincenty-direct.html

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-----Original Message-----
From: proj-bounces at lists.maptools.org [mailto:proj-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Barker
Sent: den 13 november 2008 07:37
To: proj at lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [Proj] Any access to geodetic[sic] functions ??

Clifford J Mugnier wrote:
> NGS no longer presents a "competitive" presence in software.  The NGS 
> is an agency of NOAA, and now considers its software as public domain.
> Everything is open and free to the public.  NGS only deals with 
> civilian applications of geodesy and they do nothing of a classified 
> nature.  NGS is not a secret organization like NGA must be for the U.S. Military.

I don't think anyone was suggesting there was anything secretive about it -- after all I work for NOAA too!

I just didn't see the code on a quick glance at the page. And in any case, old FORTRAN code for a few command line utilities doesn't quite satisfy the need for a library -- though I'm sure it's worth looking at and testing against.

Anyway, this all started because people ask about it a lot, and while pointing them to that page will answer the questions, it won't be as easy for folks as a C lib with a clean API -- it's not that big a deal, only a handful of functions, really.

-Chris



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