[OSM-newbies] Interpolating a point

[Chris Hunter]

Dictionary wise, you're correct.  I had a total of 8 points with bearings,
but no distance vectors, so I was actually trying to solve an inverted
resection (intersection) problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resection_(orientation)

Either way, I ended up using FizzyCalc
<http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/FizzyCalc/>to project the first 5
point/bearings by 20 miles and then plotted the intersect points in JOSM.

If someone does feel like coding up an intersection/resection surveying
plugin for JOSM, it looks like many of the calculations involve Vicenty's
Formula <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenty%27s_formulae>.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:51 PM, David ``Smith'' <vidthekid at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Chris Hunter <chunter952 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Is there a relatively quick way to interpolate a point in JOSM given 2
> other
> > points and a magnetic bearing?
>
> I think you mean, "triangulate" a point.  Other than that
> clarification, I can't help.  I have very little experience with JOSM
> but I don't believe such a function exists.  On the other hand, if
> someone wants to write a simple JOSM plugin to do this task, I can
> come up with some pseudocode to accomplish the necessary calculations.
>
> --
> David "Smith"
> a.k.a. Vid the Kid
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>
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