Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples
View source: R/geo_move_point.R
Creates a new latitude, longitude point based on an origin point, bearing and distance
1 | geo_move_point(coordinates, bearing, distance)
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coordinates |
A vector contaning one latitude and longitude point |
bearing |
The angle relative to north to move towards |
distance |
The distance in kilometers to move away from the origin point |
Returns a vector of length 2 containing a latitude and longitude point.
Shant Sukljian
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | # Load required packages
require(mapview)
require(sp)
# Create sample geo dataset
sample_coord <-
matrix(
c(
sample(327131680:419648450, 1) / 10000000,
sample(-1147301410:-1241938690, 1) / 10000000
),
ncol = 2
)
# Create new point
(gmp <- geo_move_point(sample_coord, sample(0:359, 1), 500))
# Join all the points into a single matrix
bound_poly <- rbind(sample_coord, gmp)
# Create SpacialPoints object and pass to mapview for visualization
mapview(
SpatialPoints(
bound_poly[,c(2, 1)],
proj4string = CRS("+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84")
)
)
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