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Re: Calculate new coordinates given bearing and distance?
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2021 Nov 6, 14:29 -0400
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2021 Nov 6, 14:29 -0400
From my copy of Moore it looks like they converted each segment into its N, S, E, and W mileage components, which they then added/subtracted accordingly to get a total N/S distance, and E/W distance.
Don Seltzer
On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 12:12 PM Ed Popko <NoReply_EdPopko@fer3.com> wrote:
Don,
Exactly as you stated. My question was how did they use that information to determine their position from those eight board settings. Did they graphically do a kind of vector addition, were there tables that summarized?
Popko
