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GEODESICPROJ(1)		    GeographicLib Utilities	       GEODESICPROJ(1)

NAME
       GeodesicProj -- perform projections based on geodesics

SYNOPSIS
       GeodesicProj ( -z | -c |	-g ) lat0 lon0 [ -r ] [	-e a f ] [ -w ]	[ -p
       prec ] [	--comment-delimiter commentdelim ] [ --version | -h | --help ]
       [ --input-file infile | --input-string instring ] [ --line-separator
       linesep ] [ --output-file outfile ]

DESCRIPTION
       Perform projections based on geodesics.	Convert	geodetic coordinates
       to either azimuthal equidistant,	Cassini-Soldner, or gnomonic
       coordinates.  The center	of the projection (lat0, lon0) is specified by
       either the -c option (for Cassini-Soldner), the -z option (for
       azimuthal equidistant), or the -g option	(for gnomonic).	 At least one
       of these	options	must be	given (the last	one given is used).

       Geodetic	coordinates are	provided on standard input as a	set of lines
       containing (blank separated) latitude and longitude (decimal degrees or
       degrees,	minutes, seconds); for details on the allowed formats for
       latitude	and longitude, see the "GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES"	section	of
       GeoConvert(1).  For each	set of geodetic	coordinates, the corresponding
       projected coordinates x,	y (meters) are printed on standard output
       together	with the azimuth azi (degrees) and reciprocal scale rk.	 For
       Cassini-Soldner,	azi is the bearing of the easting direction and	the
       scale in	the easting direction is 1 and the scale in the	northing
       direction is 1/rk.  For azimuthal equidistant and gnomonic, azi is the
       bearing of the radial direction and the scale in	the azimuthal
       direction is 1/rk.  For azimuthal equidistant and gnomonic, the scales
       in the radial direction are 1 and 1/rk^2, respectively.

OPTIONS
       -z lat0 lon0
	   use	the  azimuthal	equidistant  projection	centered at latitude =
	   lat0, longitude = lon0.  The	-w  flag  can  be  used	 to  swap  the
	   default order of the	2 coordinates, provided	that it	appears	before
	   -z.

       -c lat0 lon0
	   use	the  Cassini-Soldner  projection  centered at latitude = lat0,
	   longitude = lon0.  The -w flag can be  used	to  swap  the  default
	   order of the	2 coordinates, provided	that it	appears	before -c.

       -g lat0 lon0
	   use	the  ellipsoidal  gnomonic  projection	centered at latitude =
	   lat0, longitude = lon0.  The	-w  flag  can  be  used	 to  swap  the
	   default order of the	2 coordinates, provided	that it	appears	before
	   -g.

       -r  perform  the	 reverse  projection.	x  and y are given on standard
	   input and each line of standard output gives	 latitude,  longitude,
	   azi,	and rk.

       -e a f
	   specify  the	 ellipsoid  via	 the  equatorial  radius,  a  and  the
	   flattening, f.  Setting f = 0 results in a sphere.  Specify f  <  0
	   for	a  prolate  ellipsoid.	 A  simple  fraction,  e.g., 1/297, is
	   allowed for f.  By default,	the  WGS84  ellipsoid  is  used,  a  =
	   6378137 m, f	= 1/298.257223563.

       -w  toggle the longitude	first flag (it starts off); if the flag	is on,
	   then	on input and output, longitude precedes	latitude (except that,
	   on  input, this can be overridden by	a hemisphere designator, N, S,
	   E, W).

       -p prec
	   set the output precision to prec (default 6).  prec is  the	number
	   of  digits  after  the  decimal point for lengths (in meters).  For
	   latitudes, longitudes, and azimuths (in  degrees),  the  number  of
	   digits  after  the  decimal	point is prec +	5.  For	the scale, the
	   number of digits after the decimal point is prec + 6.

       --comment-delimiter commentdelim
	   set the comment delimiter to	commentdelim (e.g., "#"	or "//").   If
	   set,	 the  input  lines  will be scanned for	this delimiter and, if
	   found, the delimiter	and the	rest of	the line will be removed prior
	   to  processing  and	subsequently  appended	to  the	 output	  line
	   (separated by a space).

       --version
	   print version and exit.

       -h  print usage and exit.

       --help
	   print full documentation and	exit.

       --input-file infile
	   read	 input	from the file infile instead of	from standard input; a
	   file	name of	"-" stands for standard	input.

       --input-string instring
	   read	input from the string instring instead of from standard	input.
	   All occurrences of the  line	 separator  character  (default	 is  a
	   semicolon) in instring are converted	to newlines before the reading
	   begins.

       --line-separator	linesep
	   set	the line separator character to	linesep.  By default this is a
	   semicolon.

       --output-file outfile
	   write output	to the file outfile instead of to standard  output;  a
	   file	name of	"-" stands for standard	output.

EXAMPLES
	  echo 48.648 -2.007 | GeodesicProj -c 48.836 2.337
	  => -319919 -11791 86.7 0.999
	  echo -319919 -11791 |	GeodesicProj -c	48.836 2.337 -r
	  => 48.648 -2.007 86.7	0.999

ERRORS
       An illegal line of input	will print an error message to standard	output
       beginning  with "ERROR:"	and causes GeodesicProj	to return an exit code
       of 1.  However, an error	does  not  cause  GeodesicProj	to  terminate;
       following lines will be converted.

SEE ALSO
       The ellipsoidal gnomonic	projection is derived in Section 8 of C. F. F.
       Karney,	Algorithms  for	 geodesics,  J.	 Geodesy 87, 43-55 (2013); DOI
       <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-012-0578-z>;		      addenda:
       <https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/geod-addenda.html>.

AUTHOR
       GeodesicProj was	written	by Charles Karney.

HISTORY
       GeodesicProj	    was		added	      to	GeographicLib,
       <https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io>, in 2009-08.  Prior  to  version
       1.9 it was called EquidistantTest.

GeographicLib 2.2		  2022-12-13		       GEODESICPROJ(1)

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