destination: Destination point from start, bearing and distance along...

In drodriguezperez/whereiam: whereiam: Geolocation package and spherical trigonometry calculations

Description

Obtain a destination point from a given start point, initial bearing, and distance

Usage

  destination(...)

  ## Default S3 method:
 destination(latitude, longitude, brg,
    distance, units = "km", ...)

  ## S3 method for class 'Coordinate'
 destination(coordinate, brg,
    distance, units = "km", ...)

Arguments

latitude	a latitude coordinate
longitude	a longitude coordinate
brg	the initial bearing
distance	the distance to add in km or miles
units	a string with the distance units (default kilometers)
coordinate	a coordinate class
...	other argument

References

http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html

Examples

# Add 10 kilometers to icord
icord <- Coordinate(43, -8)
ecord <- destination(icord, 30, 10)

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