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How to calculate new coordinates by given distance, angle and altitude

I'm using C function to calculate new coordinates by given distance and angle to download google static maps tile by tile to create small map at given zoom. I have troubles because this code works ...
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How do I group near points with GPS positions?

I'm an IT person so I don't know too much about projections and so on, I hope you can help me. I have made an application for Android that collects a GPS position, so I have the latitude and the ...
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Calulate distance between two points [closed]

If I have two coordinate points of (lat, lon), how would I calculate the distance between the two?
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Converting lat lon into co-ordinates (in ft of m)

I have a set of latitude and longitude of a series of points which specific the trajectory of a vehicle. If I consider the first point as the origin (0,0), is it possible to convert the trajectory ...
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Obtaining coordinates when computing distance of a polygon to a line

I have a shapefile of a county. I am interested in computing its distance to a line, which I've been doing using Near. I want to know the coordinates on the line that produces the minimum distance. ...
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USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic

How do you convert from USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic to meters? Or, to latitude and longitude? I am using ArcGIS 10.1, and within it, ArcMap. The shapefile I have reports the coordinates ...
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If the Earth was flat, what unit of measurement would distances between geographic points be represented as?

A whole lot of abstraction- given two longitude/latitude points given from a GPS, I'm using the Pythagorean distance formula to find the distance between them. What unit of length would the distance ...
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Is there a ModestMaps or other flex library for finding the distance between 2 lat/lon coordinates?

I'm using ModestMaps in my Adobe Flex application. Is there a flex library method to calculate the distance between two of my lat/lon coordinates, or am I stuck coding the Haversine by hand? I've ...
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Translate geographical coordinate [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Calculating Lat/Lng X miles from point I would like to know how could I translate a geographical coordinate to an specific distance. So for example let's suppose I'm ...
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How to generate random locations nearby my location?

I am trying to create random locations nearby my location. What i want is to create random latitude/longitude pairs inside a 200 meters circle surrounding my location. This is the formula i came up ...