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Solves the direct and inverse geodesic problem

3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2025-05-04 · latest 2026-09-27

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  1. …the nanometer, and it did it: https://www.google.com/search?&q=karney+formula+geodetic+ reference: https://github.com/pbrod/karney You still have to be skeptical of its results and capable of understanding if it's gone off on a…
    comment by walrus01 · 2026-09-27 · in When did Google get so weird?
  2. …a map. Such as for microwave radio link planning purposes. Karney (2013) is also radian dependent. https://github.com/pbrod/karney
    comment by walrus01 · 2026-08-20 · in Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
  3. …should be good enough for most use cases. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenty's_formulae [2] https://github.com/pbrod/karney