How to plot a "circle" on a map with a radius given in meters

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I would like to plot the locus of points equidistant from a point on a sphere. Any suggestions on how to do this?

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project module would allow you to achieve that.

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pt.txt (2.1 KB)

Hi Bgd,

The attached shell script (pt.txt) shows a really cludgy way I computed the coordinates of 10 m circles which I used for making Tissot’s indicatrices. Maybe you can extract something from this?

Cheers,

Tim