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17th January 2018 - Link Blog

Generating polygon representing a rough 100km circle around latitude/longitude point using Python. A question I posted to the GIS Stack Exchange—I found my own answer using a Python library called geog, then someone else posted a better solution using pyproj.

Posted 17th January 2018 at 8:57 pm

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