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    Haversine formula example in Python for calculating bearing 
  
        
  
    
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  | #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| # Haversine formula example in Python for Calculating Bearing | |
| # Inspired from http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html | |
| import math | |
| def bearing(origin, destination): | |
| lat1, lon1 = origin | |
| lat2, lon2 = destination | |
| rlat1 = math.radians(lat1) | |
| rlat2 = math.radians(lat2) | |
| rlon1 = math.radians(lon1) | |
| rlon2 = math.radians(lon2) | |
| dlon = math.radians(lon2-lon1) | |
| b = math.atan2(math.sin(dlon)*math.cos(rlat2),math.cos(rlat1)*math.sin(rlat2)-math.sin(rlat1)*math.cos(rlat2)*math.cos(dlon)) # bearing calc | |
| bd = math.degrees(b) | |
| br,bn = divmod(bd+360,360) # the bearing remainder and final bearing | |
| return bn | 
  
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