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Calculating Bearing and Distance to a Latitude Longitude Waypoint with AVR Atmega C

By aliasmrjones - Last updated: Tuesday, May 19, 2009

This post will show how to calculate bearing and distance to a latitude longitude waypoint using C on an Amtel AVR microcontroller.  Deathpod3000 uses the formulas I gave in the last post, but with minor changes to adapt to C on the AVR.  The code should be easy to adapt to other microcontrollers like PIC, [...]

How to Calculate Distance and Bearing to a Latitude Longitude Waypoint in Excel

By aliasmrjones - Last updated: Thursday, April 30, 2009

In testing code for Deathpod3000, I found it very valuable to have a quick and easy way to calculate correct distance and bearing to a latitude longitude waypoint to compare to results I was getting from my Atmega32 C code.  In this article, I will explain a little about the formulas, show them working in [...]

How to calculate distance and bearing to a waypoint

By aliasmrjones - Last updated: Friday, March 6, 2009

Note:  I have published 2 more in-depth posts that contain more detailed explanations, a spreadsheet to play with and c code for calculationg bearing and distance to latitude longitude waypoints.  I suggest you read them rather than this article.  They are:
How to Calculate Distance and Bearing to a Latitude Longitude Waypoint in Excel
Calculating Bearing and [...]