{"name": "Geodesic2shape", "package_name": "geodesic2shape-master", "description": "Computes geodetic problems on the reference ellipsoid and exports the geodesic's line segment of interest to a shapefile.", "about": "- Foward Geodetic Problem: computes the geographic position of a point, given the geodetic initial azimuth and ellipsoidal distance from a point with known geographic position;\n- Inverse Geodetic Problem: computes the geodetic initial azimuth and ellipsoidal distance between two points, given their geographic positions;\n- The plugin's solution for both problems are based on Vicenty formulae, which has strong evidences of providing sub-millimeter accuracy for them over all geodesics' segments on the ellipsoid of up to 18,000 km;\n- To create the correspondent Shapefile, the problem is solved for every each 1000m (DEFAULT) sequentially, creating the points of the geodesic's line segment of interest;\n- Special thanks to my colleagues Guiderlan Mantovani, Maira Kronemberg & Felipe Ferrari and to Prof. Leonardo Oliveira for the tips and suggestions.", "homepage": "https://github.com/stefano998/geodesic2shape", "repository": "https://github.com/stefano998/geodesic2shape", "tracker": "https://github.com/stefano998/geodesic2shape/issues", "author": "Stefano Suraci", "tags": ["shapefile", "export", "line", "foward", "inverse", "geodesic"], "downloads": 2759, "latest_version": "1.0", "versions": [{"version": "1.0", "experimental": true, "qgis_min": "2.0.0", "qgis_max": "2.99.0", "downloads": 2763, "uploaded_by": "stefano998", "upload_datetime": "2017-09-01T12:05:24.215030"}]}