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| author | Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com> | 2013-05-10 03:19:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com> | 2013-05-10 03:19:09 +0000 |
| commit | a7bbac84cc8f3b2681d33ecf671a1ce81cee1072 (patch) | |
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Major upgrade to geodesic support from Charles Karney (#197).
Syncs geodesic routines with GeographicLib. Adds geodesic.3 man page.
geod_* api exposed publically. geodesic.h is installed.
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diff --git a/man/man1/geod.1 b/man/man1/geod.1 index ab6c74f7..0a2522ea 100644 --- a/man/man1/geod.1 +++ b/man/man1/geod.1 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -.\" @(#)geod.1 - 1.1 -.nr LL 5.5i +.\" @(#)geod.1 +.nr LL 6.5i .ad b .hy 1 -.TH GEOD 1 "2012/11/29 Rel. 4.8" +.TH GEOD 1 "2013/02/27 Rel. 4.8" .SH NAME geod \- direct geodesic computations .br @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ and number of points to be determined. .RE .SH EXAMPLE The following script determines the geodesic azimuths and distance in -U.S. stature miles from Boston, MA, to Portland, OR: +U.S. statute miles from Boston, MA, to Portland, OR: .RS 5 \f(CWgeod +ellps=clrk66 <<EOF -I +units=us-mi 42d15'N 71d07'W 45d31'N 123d41'W @@ -199,9 +199,19 @@ which gives: Note: lack of precision in the distance value compromises the precision of the Portland location. .SH SEE ALSO -C. F. F. Karney, -.I "Algorithms for Geodesics," J. Geodesy (2012); -DOI: 10.1007/s00190-012-0578-z, +.B geodesic(3) +.br +The \fBGeodSolve\fR utility in \fBGeographicLib\fR, +http://geographiclib.sf.net. With the \fB-E\fR option, this solves the +geodesic problems in terms of elliptic integrals; the results are +accurate for arbitrary \fIf\fR. +.br +C. F. F. Karney, \fIAlgorithms for Geodesics\fR, +.br +J. Geodesy \fB87\fR, 43-55 (2013); +.br +DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00190-012-0578-z, +.br http://geographiclib.sf.net/geod-addenda.html. .SH HOME PAGE -http://www.remotesensing.org/proj +http://proj.osgeo.org |