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13 questions linked to/from Understanding terms in Length of Degree formula?
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How to add meters to EPSG:4326 coordinates? [duplicate]
I've some lat/long in EPSG:4326 coordinate system like Eiffel Tower position : ["lat" : 48.858274,"lon" : 2.2944]
For automated tests I would like to get, for every points of my ...
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Algorithm for offsetting latitude/longitude by some amount of meters
I'm looking for an algorithm which when given a latitude and longitude pair and a vector translation in meters in Cartesian coordinates (x,y) would give me a new coordinate.
Sort of like a reverse ...
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Calculating longitude length in miles
Suppose I have the geographic coordinates of "Saratoga, California, USA" as
Latitude: 37°15.8298′ N
Longitude: 122° 1.3806′ W
I know from here that in the case of latitude 1° ≈ 69 ...
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Geodetic Coordinates And Latitude, Longitude
Would it right to say that geodetic coordinates (phi & lambda) are the same as latitude & longitude?
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How can I calculate the distances between my points in sequence automatically?
I am trying to measure distances between points and writing the calculated measure between these points in the attribute table.
The points represents a vehicle's location based on GPS data according ...
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Convert length in decimal degrees to feet
I've got attributes for a length that the Near tool calculated, and it gave them to me in decimal degrees. I need them in feet. Is it possible to do this with the Calculate Field tool? I tried ...
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How to convert distance into latitude + longitude [duplicate]
I have start point (latitude) I know direction, lets say strictly north, and I want to calculate latitude which is 100 meters above the start point.
The same for longitude.
I believe there should be ...
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Convert area in pixels to acres?
I'm writing some software that allows users to draw polygons over the raster from a geotiff file.
I can calculate the area of the polygon in pixels; in fact, this calculation is a byproduct of ...
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How to calculate scale
I'm working on processing some geo-spatial raster data, JOG-A raster to be exact, and know the imagery is supposed to be to a scale of 1:250000. However I would like to calculate this in code but am ...
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Convert meters to radians
I'm doing a project in PostGIS where I need to know what is the conversion of meters to radians. I would like to know how to do or what to look for to carry out the doubt.
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Dimensions of images given their latitude and longitude for Google Earth Engine
From the point
long: 16.499050771335575, lat: -30.882
I want to find the corresponding latitude and longitude values that would result in a 200 km by 200 km square in which the aforementioned point ...
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Distance between two latitudes and two longitudes [closed]
I would like to know what is the distance in km between two longitudes and two latitudes.
For example, at the same latitude, what is the distance, in km, between longitude x and longitude x+1 (where x ...
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Converting distance to coords?
I want to convert a coords interval (especially latitude) to real distance.
I mean let's say we stay at the exact same longitude, but with 1 degree of difference in latitude.
How many kilometers/...