#geodesy

Advanced geodesy beyond the simple great circle. The vincenty endpoint computes the distance between two latitude/longitude points on the WGS84 ellipsoid using Vincenty's inverse formula — accurate to within a millimetre, far better than the spherical approximation — plus the initial and final bearings, in metres, kilometres, miles and nautical miles. The rhumb endpoint computes the rhumb-line (loxodrome) distance and the single constant compass bearing that follows it — the path you steer by holding a heading, as used in marine and air navigation. The cross-track endpoint finds how far a point lies to the left or right of a great-circle path between two points (the cross-track distance) and how far along that path it is (the along-track distance). Everything is computed locally and deterministically, so it is instant and private. Ideal for marine and aviation navigation, surveying and GIS, route analysis, and precise mapping. Pure local computation — no key, no third-party service, instant. Live, nothing stored. 4 endpoints. This is advanced geodesy; for simple great-circle distance, bearing, midpoint and destination use a geo-distance API and for coordinate-format conversion use a geo-convert API.

api.oanor.com/geodesy-api

Map projections and coordinate reference systems as an API — the EPSG dataset made queryable. Every CRS, from geographic systems like WGS 84 (the GPS standard, EPSG 4326) to projected ones like Web Mercator (3857), the UTM zones and national grids, has an EPSG code. Search the dataset by name to find the code you need, then resolve any code to its full definition: name, kind (geographic, projected, …), area of use, scope, and — most usefully — the ready-to-paste PROJ.4 string and WKT definition that GIS libraries (GDAL, PROJ, PostGIS, Leaflet, OpenLayers, QGIS, GeoPandas) consume directly. Search comes from the official EPSG Registry maintained by IOGP; the PROJ.4/WKT exports come from epsg.io. A geodesy / coordinate-reference-system resource — distinct from geocoding (addresses to coordinates), geohashing and administrative-boundary APIs. Ideal for GIS, mapping, surveying, remote-sensing and spatial-data applications.

api.oanor.com/epsg-api