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RE: st: calculating latitude and longitude of nearby point


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: calculating latitude and longitude of nearby point
Date   Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:06:40 +0100

I am still trying to work out the reversal of sign and the change of |longitude| just from going 1 mile North....

(Yes, I know I am a geographer.) 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Scott Merryman

There is an example of calculating the destination point given
distance and bearing from start point at:

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

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Dimitriy V. Masterov <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would like to calculate the latitude and longitude of a point that
> is x miles in a given direction from a certain location. For example,
> Stata HQ is at 30.55233 and -96.24564. If I were to go 1 mile north,
> that point would be at approximately 30.567202 and 96.245539. Is there
> a way to do this in Stata? I know there's a way to calculate geodetic
> distances between two points, but this would be the inverse. I am only
> interested in going up to 10 miles out and all my points are in
> continental US.

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