`great_distance` can break down for some start/end points

acrosby / GreatCircle.jl

Port of Kyle Wilcox's Python implementation of the Vincenty formulation for calculating distances on a ellipsoidal earth (https://github.com/axiom-data-science/pygc/)

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`great_distance` can break down for some start/end points #6

Open acrosby opened 6 years ago

acrosby commented 6 years ago

Probably impacted by https://github.com/axiom-data-science/pygc/issues/4 as well.

acrosby commented 6 years ago

This is a known defect in the algorithm (JuliaGeo/Geodesy.jl#40)