Telecommunications V&H Coordinate Conversion

The Vertical and Horizontal coordinate system was developed by the telecommunications industry to simplify the calculations needed to determine the straight-line airline distance between two sets of geographical points. Applications will often need to convert between the V&H coordinate system and geographical latitude and longitude coordinate pairs. This library provides that functionality.

The library consists of two objects, the V&H coordinate object, and the latitude and longitude coordinate object. Combined, they form the conversion library.

For portability, the library is delivered in source code format. You will need to compile the source files to actually create the binary library and link it with your application or simply include the source files with your application.

The source code has been written for portability in standard C++ and does not use any compiler specific directives. It has been compiled and tested under Microsoft®Windows®, Linux, and FreeBSD and should compile equally well on other platforms.