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From: Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net>
To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Distance measuring
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 19:59:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040107015911.GF27234@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401061152.01460.phil@spiderweb.com.au>

* Phil <phil@spiderweb.com.au> [2004 Jan 06 18:19 -0600]:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I'm looking for a Linux application, or maybe the code that does the 
> calculation, that will measure the distance between two points given the 
> latitude and longitude. I've seen applications that measure the distance 
> between grid squares but that's not what I need.
> 
> Can anyone help?

Hi Phil.

You might also want to check out Hamlib at http://sf.net/projects/hamlib

Last summer a substantial amoutn of re-work went to locator.c in the src
directory which implements just the functions you're looking for.
Hamlib is written in C and it's a reasonably simple matter to install
the library and use those functions in your program.  I won't guarantee
the code to return extremely accurate results, but they seem reasonable.

Right now the only way to get the latest changes is through CVS although
a stable release is expected in the next few weeks.

HTH,

73, de Nate >>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-01-07  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-06  1:52 Distance measuring Phil
2004-01-07  0:40 ` Jeroen Vreeken
2004-01-07  1:03 ` Dennis Boone
2004-01-07  1:59 ` Nate Bargmann [this message]
2004-01-07  7:36 ` Milan Kalina
2004-01-07  9:14 ` Joop Stakenborg

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