[Proj] Distance calculation
Karl Swartz
karl at kls2.com
Tue Oct 14 16:04:48 EDT 2008
> Zhang Xue-Lian (1985) The nested coefficient method for accurate
> solutions of direct and inverse geodetic problems with any length.
> Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Geodetic
> Computations, Direct and inverse distance
> functions. Cracow, June 18-21, 1985. Institute of
> Geodesy and Cartography. Wasaw, Poland, ul. Jasna 2/4 pp 747-763
>
> since it's more accurate than the classical method due to Gauss for
> long distances.
How does this compare to Thomas Vincenty's algorithm (which can be found
at http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/inverse.pdf)?
-- Karl
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