Re: earthdistance compass bearing - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Merlin Moncure
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In response to earthdistance compass bearing  (Jeff Herrin <jeff@openhotel.com>)
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Jeff Herrin <jeff@openhotel.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get a compass bearing (N,S,NW,etc) using earthdistance. I can
> successfully get the distance between 2 points using either the point or
> cube method, but I've been struggling with getting the bearing. Any tips?

convert the code from here:
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html

I previously showed how you could convert midpoint here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-general@postgresql.org/msg159460.html

merlin


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