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6.4

Drawing a grid with gps coordinates

Asked by CHRISCOMB in GIS & GPS Programming

Tags: GPS, JAVA

Hi

I'm developing a system that takes a users address and gets the GPS coordinates.
When I have the GPS coordinates I want to register this user to a 3km*3km pre-described block.

I need to build this grid.
Each block on this grid would have a GPS coordinate on every corner.
These blocks would be recorded on a  database as follow.
BlockID - KDP001
NorthLat  - x  
NorthLong  - y
EastLat  - x
EastLong  - y
SouthLat  - x
SouthLong - y
WestLat -   x
WestLong - y
 
I will then take the coordinates that I get from the users address and just do > < calculations to determine the block ID a user falls under.

My question is - how can I get all the coordinates of the blocks ??

I can calculte the distance between 2 GPS points.
So a possible solution would be that if I enter a point then I should calculate the GPS point 3km horizontaly away from that point and also vertically.



But this is where I'm getting stuck!
Any help please?


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The code to calculate distance between 2 GPS points.
 
private double distance(double lat1, double lon1, double lat2, double lon2, char unit) {
  double theta = lon1 - lon2;
  double dist = Math.sin(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.sin(deg2rad(lat2)) + Math.cos(deg2rad(lat1)) * Math.cos(deg2rad(lat2)) * Math.cos(deg2rad(theta));
  dist = Math.acos(dist);
  dist = rad2deg(dist);
  dist = dist * 60 * 1.1515;
  if (unit == 'K') {
    dist = dist * 1.609344;
  } else if (unit == 'N') {
  	dist = dist * 0.8684;
    }
  return (dist);
}
 
/*:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::*/
/*::  This function converts decimal degrees to radians             :*/
/*:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::*/
private double deg2rad(double deg) {
  return (deg * Math.PI / 180.0);
}
 
/*:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::*/
/*::  This function converts radians to decimal degrees             :*/
/*:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::*/
private double rad2deg(double rad) {
  return (rad * 180.0 / Math.PI);
}
 
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