What are the GPS coordinates of the destination?

Question by CBB: What are the GPS coordinates of the destination?
A person stands at N51 02.659, W114 03.781 and then walks on a bearing 338 degrees for 1,340 metres (4,395 feet). What are the GPS coordinates of the final destination?

Best answer:

Answer by norcekri
Isn’t this a straightforward vector addition problem? Break down the walk into longitude and latitude components, add them to the old GPS readings, and you get the new GPS reading. Does your class take the Earth’s curvature into account, that this is more of a problem for you? At this level of accuracy, I don’t think the difference is going to be a problem.

In short, let us know where you’re stuck, so we can just help you over that part.

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