Sailings

Great Circle and Rhumb line routes

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Rating: 4.00
(771)
Version: 1.20 (Last updated: 2024-07-16)
Creation date: 2015-05-19
Permissions
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
Other:
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • read Google service configuration

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App summary

Sailing is a method of solving the various problems involving course, distance, difference of latitude, difference of longitude, and departure.

The app plots on a Google map the route between a departure and a destination point, using the following sailings:
- Rhumb line (loxodromic).
- Great Circle (orthodromic).
And calculates:
- Course & distance.
- Waypoints of the great circle route.
- Save between Rhumb line and Great Circle route.
- Nodes and vertices of the Great Circle.

It also plots the entire Great Circle.

OPERATION
1 - Long click 1: adds the departure point
2 - Long click 2: adds the destination point and plots RL & GC
3 - Tap the Mark to see the information
4- [Output]
- GC course C and distance D
- Save between RL & GC
- Waypoints of the GC route
- Vertices and nodes of the GC

WARNING not for live navigation. Sailings App is a useful calculator for navigation.

User interface:
- Zoom buttons +/-
- Map types: normal, terrain and satellite
- GPS location. ("Location" App permission must be allowed. Switch on you GPS, and then automatic location detection is possible).

See App help for more details.

User reviews

Helpfully.
by John Aisapo, 2024-04-10

Some
by Aliza Hussin, 2020-12-27

I like this app
by Teubwa Tewaaki, 2020-11-12
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