georust / geographiclib-rs

A port of geographiclib in Rust.
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fix test_std_geodesic_geodsolve2 test failure #21

Closed stonylohr closed 3 years ago

stonylohr commented 3 years ago

This standard Karney unit test currently fails. Fix geodesic behavior to make it work.

This test covers an "antipodal prolate" case, which is to say points on opposite sides of a spheroid shaped like an egg (elongated rather than squashed). My sense is that this is likely to be a pretty unusual case in practice, since no planetary body is likely to have this shape, so this can probably be a lower priority than some other test failures.