bstb

Introduction

Recently I rediscovered Geocaching as a hobby. It is a nice reason to walk around in a city or in nature and discover interessting facts and have a nice time in general.

When searching for clues for a Mystery cache, I needed to calculate a destination from a starting point, bearing and distance.

With my nautical background, this used to be a regular operation for me. I prefer to use Python scripts for calculations like this so the process is repeatable.

So I started coding this package.

Formulas

Loxodrome and Great circle

I used the loxodrome and great circle formulas on Movable Type Scripts. Those I recognized from my studies at a Nautical Collage.

Geodesic

GeoCaching Toolbox

Project name

bstb or breastbone is a random generated project name and has no special meaning.