I have the following problem: I have been given an origin as a lon / lat pair, a distance in kilometers and an angle on the ground, relative to the cardinal directions. My goal is to compute the destination (as a lon / lat pair) which is reached after moving in the direction given by the angle for the given distance.
How might I go about computing the destination? Is there a closed formula?
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. The distance is a little less than 300 kilometers, but I would have thought that this is a well posed problem: After all there should only be one great circle containing the origin and having the required (local) degree should't it?