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RHUMBSOLVE(1) GeographicLib Utilities RHUMBSOLVE(1) NAME RhumbSolve -- perform rhumb line calculations SYNOPSIS RhumbSolve [ -i | -L lat1 lon1 azi12 ] [ -e a f ] [ -u ] [ -d | -: ] [ -w ] [ -p prec ] [ -E ] [ --comment-delimiter commentdelim ] [ --version | -h | --help ] [ --input-file infile | --input-string instring ] [ --line-separa- tor linesep ] [ --output-file outfile ] DESCRIPTION The path with constant heading between two points on the ellipsoid at (lat1, lon1) and (lat2, lon2) is called the rhumb line or loxodrome. Its length is s12 and the rhumb line has a forward azimuth azi12 along its length. The quantity S12 is the area between the rhumb line from point 1 to point 2 and the equator; i.e., it is the area, measured counter-clock- wise, of the geodesic quadrilateral with corners (lat1,lon1), (0,lon1), (0,lon2), and (lat2,lon2). The longitude becomes indeterminate when a rhumb line passes through a pole, and RhumbSolve reports NaNs for the lon- gitude and the area in this case. NOTE: the rhumb line is not the shortest path between two points; that is the geodesic and it is calculated by GeodSolve(1). RhumbSolve operates in one of three modes: 1. By default, RhumbSolve accepts lines on the standard input containing lat1 lon1 azi12 s12 and prints lat2 lon2 S12 on standard output. This is the direct calculation. 2. With the -i command line argument, RhumbSolve performs the inverse cal- culation. It reads lines containing lat1 lon1 lat2 lon2 and prints the values of azi12 s12 S12 for the corresponding shortest rhumb lines. 3. Command line arguments -L lat1 lon1 azi12 specify a rhumb line. Rhumb- Solve then accepts a sequence of s12 values (one per line) on standard input and prints lat2 lon2 S12 for each. This generates a sequence of points on a rhumb line. OPTIONS -i perform an inverse calculation (see 2 above). -L lat1 lon1 azi12 line mode (see 3 above); generate a sequence of points along the rhumb line specified by lat1 lon1 azi12. The -w flag can be used to swap the default order of the 2 geographic coordinates, provided that it appears before -L. -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 el- lipsoid. A simple fraction, e.g., 1/297, is allowed for f. By de- fault, the WGS84 ellipsoid is used, a = 6378137 m, f = 1/298.257223563. -u unroll the longitude. Normally, on output longitudes are reduced to lie in [-180deg,180deg). However with this option, the returned longi- tude lon2 is "unrolled" so that lon2 - lon1 indicates how often and in what sense the geodesic has encircled the earth. -d output angles as degrees, minutes, seconds instead of decimal degrees. -: like -d, except use : as a separator instead of the d, ', and " delim- iters. -w 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 3); prec is the precision relative to 1 m. See "PRECISION". -E By default, the rhumb line calculations are carried out using series expansions valid for |f| < 0.01. If -E is supplied, exact equations for the rhumb line are used and the area integral is computed with an accurate fit based on this exact equations; these are valid for arbi- trary eccentricities. --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 semi- colon) 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. INPUT RhumbSolve measures all angles in degrees, all lengths (s12) in meters, and all areas (S12) in meters^2. On input angles (latitude, longitude, az- imuth, arc length) can be as decimal degrees or degrees, minutes, seconds. For example, "40d30", "40d30'", "40:30", "40.5d", and 40.5 are all equiva- lent. By default, latitude precedes longitude for each point (the -w flag switches this convention); however on input either may be given first by appending (or prepending) N or S to the latitude and E or W to the longi- tude. Azimuths are measured clockwise from north; however this may be overridden with E or W. For details on the allowed formats for angles, see the "GEOGRAPHIC COORDI- NATES" section of GeoConvert(1). PRECISION prec gives precision of the output with prec = 0 giving 1 m precision, prec = 3 giving 1 mm precision, etc. prec is the number of digits after the decimal point for lengths. For decimal degrees, the number of digits after the decimal point is prec + 5. For DMS (degree, minute, seconds) output, the number of digits after the decimal point in the seconds component is prec + 1. The minimum value of prec is 0 and the maximum is 10. ERRORS An illegal line of input will print an error message to standard output be- ginning with "ERROR:" and causes RhumbSolve to return an exit code of 1. However, an error does not cause RhumbSolve to terminate; following lines will be converted. ACCURACY The algorithm used by RhumbSolve uses either series expansions or (if -E is specified) exact formulas for computing the rhumb line and the area. These series are formulas are accurate for |f| < 0.01 and the exact formulas ap- ply for any value of the flattening. The computation of rhumb lines and the area involves the ratio of differences and, for nearly east- or west- going rhumb lines, this might result in a large loss of accuracy. However, this problem is avoided by the use of divided differences. For the WGS84 ellipsoid, the error is about 10 nanometers using either method. EXAMPLES Route from JFK Airport to Singapore Changi Airport: echo 40:38:23N 073:46:44W 01:21:33N 103:59:22E | RhumbSolve -i -: -p 0 103:34:58.2 18523563 45921660958919 N.B. This is not the route typically taken by aircraft because it's consid- erably longer than the geodesic given by GeodSolve(1). Waypoints on the route at intervals of 2000km: for ((i = 0; i <= 20; i += 2)); do echo ${i}000000;done | RhumbSolve -L 40:38:23N 073:46:44W 103:34:58.2 -: -p 0 40:38:23.0N 073:46:44.0W 0 36:24:30.3N 051:28:26.4W 9817078307821 32:10:26.8N 030:20:57.3W 18224745682005 27:56:13.2N 010:10:54.2W 25358020327741 23:41:50.1N 009:12:45.5E 31321269267102 19:27:18.7N 027:59:22.1E 36195163180159 15:12:40.2N 046:17:01.1E 40041499143669 10:57:55.9N 064:12:52.8E 42906570007050 06:43:07.3N 081:53:28.8E 44823504180200 02:28:16.2N 099:24:54.5E 45813843358737 01:46:36.0S 116:52:59.7E 45888525219677 SEE ALSO GeoConvert(1), GeodSolve(1). An online version of this utility is availbable at <https://geographi- clib.sourceforge.io/cgi-bin/RhumbSolve>. SEE ALSO GeoConvert(1). An online version of this utility is availbable at <https://geographi- clib.sourceforge.io/cgi-bin/GeodSolve>. This solution for rhumb line is described in C. F. F. Karney, The area of rhumb polygons, Technical Report, SRI International (2023); URL: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03219>. The Wikipedia page, Rhumb line, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhumb_line>. AUTHOR RhumbSolve was written by Charles Karney. HISTORY RhumbSolve was added to GeographicLib, <https://geographiclib.source- forge.io>, in version 1.37 and substantially rewritten in version 2.2. GeographicLib 2.2 2023-03-07 RHUMBSOLVE(1)
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