Обсуждение: Miidpoint between two long/lat points? (earthdistance?)

The simplest way to deal with "the 180 degree problem" is to remember that you can add 360 degrees to a long and get a value that should continue to work. So, assuming "West" is negative, -175 (175 degrees West) is the same as -175+360 = 185 (185 degrees East). Then you don't have to worry about wraparound. If the result is > 180, subtract 360.
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Rick Genter
rick.genter@gmail.com

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Carlo Stonebanks
<stonec.register@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I need to calculate the long/lat values between a line demarcated by two
> long/lat points.
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> The points will be very close, but there is the 180 degree problem to
> consider, so a simple average won’t work.
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> Does anyone know of a function or have a formula that will work using geo
> long/lat values? I don’t see anything obvious in the earthdistance module.

Conerted from javascript from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atan2

btw i'm not huge fan of earthdistance module either -- it's easier to
just rig functions to do what you want.

merlin

create or replace function midpoint(
  lat1 float8,
  lon1 float8,
  lat2 float8,
  lon2 float8,
  lat_mid out float8,
  lon_mid out float8) returns record as
$$
   select
     atan2(sin(lat1)+sin(lat2),
                    sqrt( (cos(lat1)+Bx)*(cos(lat1)+Bx) + By*By) ) * 57.2957795,
     (lon1 + atan2(By, cos(lat1) + Bx)) * 57.2957795
     from
     (
        select
          lat1,
          lat2,
          lon1,
          cos(lat2) * cos(dlon) as bx,
          cos(lat2) * sin(dlon) as by
          from
          (
            select
            $1 * 0.0174532925 as lat1,
            $3 * 0.0174532925 as lat2,
            $2 * 0.0174532925 as lon1,
            ($4 - $2) * 0.0174532925 as dlon
           ) q
      ) q;
$$ language sql immutable;

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> Converted from javascript from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atan2

whoops! meant to say here:
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html

merlin

Nicely done, Merlin! Hope others with the same problem can find this post.
Thanks a lot.

-----Original Message-----
From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:mmoncure@gmail.com]
Sent: May 26, 2011 9:53 AM
To: Carlo Stonebanks
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Miidpoint between two long/lat points?
(earthdistance?)

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
> Converted from javascript from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atan2

whoops! meant to say here:
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html

merlin