Hi Larry and Rossko,
Ok, I have the solution, which I will share with you.
I cannot claim any credit as it was Chris Veness (of movable-
type.co.uk fame) who supplied it.
Firstly to clarify the question -
The two points are at the same radius from the centre point.
The arc must extend from the first point and finish at the second
point.
The issue of clockwise or counter-clockwise is probably situation
specific - for myself the direction is counter-clockwise.
Here is his solution as he stated it -
* find bearing b1 from centre point to point A
* find bearing b2 from centre point to point B
* arc[] = point A // initial point in polyline array
* for (brng = b1; brng <= b2; brng += incr)
* {
* p = new point dist r, bearing brng from centre point
* arc[] = p // add this point to polyline array
* }
* draw(arc)
I was able to implement this pseudo code to my specific needs.
Thanks for your help gentlemen.
Simon
On Aug 25, 2:38 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Aug 25, 2:34 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 25, 12:23 am, sgiddings <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi Larry,
>
> > > In fact, it was your own page that you put in place to help me with
> > > 'donuts' !
>
> > >http://www.geocodezip.com/v3_polygon_example_donut.html
>
> > But I asked for "the map where you tried to adapt it and failed".
>
> > I'm sure I can do it, given time and motivation (it is just math).
>
> The problem as posed is both underspecified (not enough information)
> and over specified (too much information). So you have to make some
> decisions when you write your code. For this case you may know the
> solution, but for a general purpose arc routine, you will need to
> address them.
>
> 1. You have a radius, center point and two points on the circle. What
> if they aren't consistent? Does the arc go through both points or
> have the specified radius from the center?
>
> 2. There are 2 solutions: big arc and little arc. What determines
> which way the arc is drawn, clockwise or counter-clockwise?
>
> -- Larry
>
>
>
> > > Simon
>
> > > On Aug 24, 8:35 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > On Aug 24, 11:27 am, sgiddings <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > I need to draw an arc between two points on the map, which are defined
> > > > > by a third "centre" point, keeping the same radius.
>
> > > > > Point A is at (48.596190206866830 : -1.5551704322317228)
> > > > > Point B is at (48.610335003092956 : -1.6123447775299600)
> > > > > Centre point is at (48.565630000000006 : -1.6050300000000002)
> > > > > The radius between the centre point and the outer points is 5 Km
>
> > > > > I tried to adapt the polyline circle example but have clearly not
> > > > > understood what I should do.
>
> > > > > Can anyone help me with this ?
>
> > > > Probably. Where is the map where you tried to adapt it and failed?
>
> > > > -- Larry
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