ucar.unidata.geoloc

Interface LatLonPoint

All Known Implementing Classes:

LatLonPointImpl

public interface LatLonPoint

Points on the Earth's surface, represented as (longitude,latitude), in units of degrees. Longitude is always between -180 and +180 deg. Latitude is always between -90 and +90 deg.

Author:

John Caron

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	equals(LatLonPoint pt) Returns true if this represents the same point as pt.
double	getLatitude() Returns the latitude, between +/- 90 degrees.
double	getLongitude() Returns the longitude, between +/-180 degrees

Method Detail

getLongitude

double getLongitude()

Returns the longitude, between +/-180 degrees

Returns:

longitude (degrees)

getLatitude

double getLatitude()

Returns the latitude, between +/- 90 degrees.

Returns:

latitude (degrees)

equals

boolean equals(LatLonPoint pt)

Returns true if this represents the same point as pt.

Parameters:

pt - point to check

Returns:

true if this represents the same point