Several weeks ago I had proposed a geodesic measure tool that also includes the bearing from point A to B and bearing from B to A. Nyall suggested that this capability be added to the QGIS measure tool. The question is would you want this with the QGIS measure tool or should it be a separate plugin? The changes would be as follows:
1. Where the current measure tool has 'Segments' there would be two more columns with 'Bearing to' and 'Bearing from'. 2. I would like to see a check box or selection widget of some sort that chooses between using Geodesic math or the current method of calculating the distances which I am still unsure on how it is doing its calculations. Right now it could use the Vincinty algorithms in QGIS to calculate the distances, but eventually I would like to see the geographiclib algorithms used. If this is of interest then I will attempt to get a QGIS development environment running to help make the changes to the core measure tool; otherwise, I will just create a plugin to do this. If I create a plugin I will use the geographiclib python library to do the calculations. Thoughts? Thanks, Calvin
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