point Class Reference

2D-Point Class. More...

Detailed Description

2D-Point Class.

Used as location property anywhere in the text

• Calculation of distances
• +,-,-=,*= Operators overloaded

Public Member Functions
	point ()
	Empty Constructor. Creates an (0 0) location.
	point (const point &p)
	Copy Constructor.
	point (double x_, double y_, double z_=0.0)
	Creates a point from two doubles.
double	angleToXAxis (point p) const
	Returns the angle between the line \( \overline{this,p} \) to the x-Axis in degrees.
double	azimuth (point p) const
	Returns the azimuth angle of the line \( \overline{this,p} \) to the Azimuth in degrees.
double	distance3DTo (point p) const
	Returns the euclidian distance in space to another point p.
double	distance_max (point p) const
	Returns the distance by the maximum orthogonal offset.
double	distanceTo (point p) const
	Returns the horizontal euclidian distance to another point p.
double	sum () const
	Returns x+y+z.
double	z_weight_distance (point p, double z_weight) const
	Returns the horizontal euclidian distance plus the absolute of the height difference times a factor.

Static Public Member Functions
static double	distance (point p1, point p2)
	Returns the horizontal euclidian distance between p1 and p2.

Public Attributes
double	x
	East-value of the location in m.
double	y
	North-value of the location in m.
double	z
	Height of the location in m.a.s.l.

Member Function Documentation

distanceTo()

double distanceTo

(

point

p

)

const

Returns the horizontal euclidian distance to another point p.

\(\sqrt{(this.x-p.x)^2+(this.y-p.y)^2}\)

z_weight_distance()

double z_weight_distance	(	point	p,
		double	z_weight ) const

Returns the horizontal euclidian distance plus the absolute of the height difference times a factor.

\(\sqrt{(this.x-p.x)^2+(this.y-p.y)^2}\ +\ w_{z}|this.z-p.z|\)