[Marble-devel] Re: how to draw a circle with two GeoDataCoordinates points?

[Torsten Rahn]

Hi jun,

Sorry for the late reply. But I think now I understand what you want to do.
The solution you came up with will only deliver an approximation:

The circle that is created on the globe will only be a circle in "cartesian" 
lat / lon space. With reasonably small circles at low to average latitudes the 
difference might be small.

GeoPainter doesn't provide circles in terms of a circle representing the 
intersection of a cone with the sphere (where the top of the cone is at the 
center of the sphere). That's still a feature that hasn't been implemented 
yet. Patches are welcome ...

Best Regards,

Torsten


On Monday, 10. January 2011 07:31:46 jun yang wrote:
> I got it.
> 
> GeoDataLineString line;
> 		line.append(point_center);
> 		line.append(point_on_circle);
> 		? = 2 *
> line.length(marble_widget->model()->planet()->radius())/111.12/1000;
> 
> 2011/1/10 jun yang <slickqt at gmail.com>:
> > GeoDataCoordinates point_center;
> > GeoDataCoordinates point_on_circle;
> > GeoPainter *painter;
> > painter->drawEllipse(center,?,?,true); //? should fill what ?
> > doc said:
> > If \a isGeoProjected is true then the outline of the ellipse is drawn
> >    in geographic coordinates. In this case the \a width and the \a height
> >    are interpreted to be degrees.
> 
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