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geosphere (version 1.6-5)
Spherical Trigonometry
Description
Spherical trigonometry for geographic applications. That is, compute distances and related measures for angular (longitude/latitude) locations.
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GPL (>= 3)
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Robert Hijmans
Last Published
March 2nd, 2026
Functions in geosphere (1.6-5)
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gcLat
Latitude on a Great Circle
gcMaxLat
Highest latitude on a great circle
geodesic
geodesic and inverse geodesic problem
makePoly
Add vertices to a polygon or line
lengthLine
Length of lines
distm
Distance matrix
finalBearing
Final direction
perimeter
Compute the perimeter of a longitude/latitude polygon
onGreatCircle
Is a point on a given great circle?
gcIntersectBearing
Intersections of two great circles
gcLon
Longitude on a Great Circle
intermediate
Intermediate points on a great circle (sphere)
horizon
Distance to the horizon
mercator
Mercator projection
midPoint
Mid-point
distVincentySphere
'Vincenty' (sphere) great circle distance
gcIntersect
Intersections of two great circles
randomCoordinates
Random or regularly distributed coordinates on the globe
greatCircleBearing
Great circle
geosphere-package
Geosphere
greatCircle
Great circle
plotArrows
Plot
geomean
Mean location of sperhical coordinates
refEllipsoids
Reference ellipsoids
span
Span of polygons
OSGB
Ordnance Survey for Great Britain grid reference system
destPoint
Destination given bearing (direction) and distance
bearingRhumb
Rhumbline direction
antipode
Antipodes
areaPolygon
Area of a longitude/latitude polygon
alongTrackDistance
Along Track Distance
dist2gc
Cross Track Distance
distCosine
'Law of cosines' great circle distance
daylength
Daylength
distGeo
Distance on an ellipsoid (the geodesic)
wrld
World countries
distHaversine
'Haversine' great circle distance
dist2Line
Distance between points and lines or the border of polygons.
centroid
Centroid of spherical polygons
destPointRhumb
Destination along a rhumb line
distVincentyEllipsoid
'Vincenty' (ellipsoid) great circle distance
distMeeus
'Meeus' great circle distance
distRhumb
Distance along a rhumb line
bearing
Direction of travel