Top "Latitude-longitude" questions

Managing data about geographic point locations, using a latitude-longitude pair (degrees north/south, and east/west, respectively) per point.

Is the Haversine Formula or the Vincenty's Formula better for calculating distance?

Which is better for calculating the distance between two latitude/longitude points, The Haversine Formula or The Vincenty's Formula? Why? …

language-agnostic geospatial latitude-longitude trigonometry
How to take a subset from a netCDF file using latitude/longitude boundaries in R

I have a netCDF file that I wish to extract a subset from defined by latitude/longitude boundaries (i.e. …

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Determine if one coordinate is in radius of another

Let's say I have a Table of rows that contain coordinates. What would be the best way to pull only …

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Using Matlab Google-Earth Toolbox to plot Latitude and Longitude

I am trying to plot some waypoints using the Google-Earth toolbox. The documentation for it is pretty poor, so I …

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Iphone. Create a latitude from a string or integers

One small conversion problem that drives me crazy. I have a string (ex "35.453454") that represents a latitude. I want to …

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Lat Long to Minutes and Seconds?

Google Maps gives me the Lat and Long of a location in decimal notation like this: 38.203655,-76.113281 How do I …

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UTM and MGRS to Latitude/Longitude conversion source-code?

What open-source / public domain software is there "out there" for conversion between Latitude/Longitude, UTM (Universal Transform Mercator) and MGRS (…

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rough estimate of the time offset from GMT from latitude longitude

Is there a way to estimate the offset from GMT (or time zone) from a latitude/longitude? I've seen geonames, …

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Moving a CLLocation by x meters

I have a CLLocation defined, and I'd like to move that point x meters to the east and y meters …

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