I am trying to find the destination point, given a starting point lat/long, bearing & distance. The calculator from this website below gives me the desired results.
Here's some code that achieves what you want to do.
public static GeoLocation FindPointAtDistanceFrom(GeoLocation startPoint, double initialBearingRadians, double distanceKilometres)
{
const double radiusEarthKilometres = 6371.01;
var distRatio = distanceKilometres / radiusEarthKilometres;
var distRatioSine = Math.Sin(distRatio);
var distRatioCosine = Math.Cos(distRatio);
var startLatRad = DegreesToRadians(startPoint.Latitude);
var startLonRad = DegreesToRadians(startPoint.Longitude);
var startLatCos = Math.Cos(startLatRad);
var startLatSin = Math.Sin(startLatRad);
var endLatRads = Math.Asin((startLatSin * distRatioCosine) + (startLatCos * distRatioSine * Math.Cos(initialBearingRadians)));
var endLonRads = startLonRad
+ Math.Atan2(
Math.Sin(initialBearingRadians) * distRatioSine * startLatCos,
distRatioCosine - startLatSin * Math.Sin(endLatRads));
return new GeoLocation
{
Latitude = RadiansToDegrees(endLatRads),
Longitude = RadiansToDegrees(endLonRads)
};
}
public struct GeoLocation
{
public double Latitude { get; set; }
public double Longitude { get; set; }
}
public static double DegreesToRadians(double degrees)
{
const double degToRadFactor = Math.PI / 180;
return degrees * degToRadFactor;
}
public static double RadiansToDegrees(double radians)
{
const double radToDegFactor = 180 / Math.PI;
return radians * radToDegFactor;
}