MobilityDB 1.1

◆ geog_bearing()

static Datum geog_bearing ( Datum  point1,
Datum  point2 
)
static

Compute the bearing between two geographic points.

Note
Derived from https://gist.github.com/jeromer/2005586

N.B. In PostGIS, for geodetic coordinates, X is longitude and Y is latitude The formulae used is the following: lat = sin(Δlong).cos(lat2) long = cos(lat1).sin(lat2) - sin(lat1).cos(lat2).cos(Δlong) θ = atan2(lat, long)