Paul Surgeon writes:
> 
> Does anyone know how to determine the tangent to a point on a wgs84 ellipsoid?

this should help
FG_SRC / tests / test_up.cxx

> Are there any good sources that will walk me through ellisoid maths 
> step-by-step?

There are many my favorite are
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/datum/datum.html
http://earth-info.nima.mil/GandG/geolay/toc.htm
http://www.irbs.com/bowditch/

My favorite text
Bomford, G. 1980. Geodesy. Oxford: Clarendon Press

You might also find this code helpful
http://www.remotesensing.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/osrs/proj/src/geocent.c?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Norman



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