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Compute lat/lon given radial and distance from a known point. Enter lat/lon of initial point, true course and distance. Select distance units and earth model and click "compute". Lat/lons may be entered in DD.DD, DD:MM.MM or DD:MM:SS.SS formats. Note that the starting point cannot be a pole.
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Use Great Circle Mapper to calculate the distance and flight duration between all airports worldwide and draw the flight route on a map.
I need to use Python to create a great circle distance -- both a number, and preferably some kind of 'curve' that I can use to draw in a client-side map. I don't care about the format of the curve -- be it WKT, or a set of pairs of coordinates -- but just want to get the data out.
Great Circle Map displays the shortest route between airports and calculates the distance. It draws geodesic flight paths on top of Google maps, so you can create your own route map.
Natural questions are to seek the great circle distance between two specified points and true course at points along the route. The required spherical trigonometric formulae are greatly simplified if angles and distances are measured in the appropriate natural units, which are both radians!
Calculate the great circle distance between two addresses. Draw a direct route between two airports, or multiple airport pairs. Draw range rings (concentric circles) around a point. Calculate coordinates at a given bearing and distance. Coordinate Converter.
The shorter segment between two points on a great circle is the shortest path between the two points on the sphere, also known as an orthodrome or the great circle distance. You may calculate the great circle distance between two points on the Earth from the geographical coordinates.
