Mehmetulas98
/ compassbearing.py
Created
March 3, 2022 13:24
— forked from jeromer/compassbearing.py
compass bearing between two points in Python
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| # LICENSE: public domain | |
| def calculate_initial_compass_bearing(pointA, pointB): | |
| """ | |
| Calculates the bearing between two points. | |
| The formulae used is the following: | |
| θ = atan2(sin(Δlong).cos(lat2), | |
| cos(lat1).sin(lat2) − sin(lat1).cos(lat2).cos(Δlong)) |