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I have posted a law-of-cosines calculation example several times where
coordinates of an intersection point are determined from two GPS locations with a bearing from each location...to the intersection point. I can find one of those in my files and post it later if that is needed. Oh, intersection of two directions is fundamentally a law-of-sines calculation and that is a much easier calculation than a law-of-cosines calculation. A law-of-cosines calculation is use for the intersection of two distances... But it could been done graphically with 'Scratch-Plot' because one of the newer features of 'Scratch-Plot' is a plot by azimuth and distance. Just set-up a scale of UTM coordinates, plot each GPS location in UTM coordinates, plot a line from each location with an azimuth direction and a dummy-distance so that the lines intersect, mouse-click a point at the intersection of the lines, and check the coordinates of the mouse-click point immediately in the help file or later in the plot text file. Compass directions with declination should also be adjusted with UTM convergence before they are used with UTM coordinates... |
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