Trilateration Cache

[+TnTDaws]

Is there any programs out there for this type or how do you figure them out?

[+ngrrfan]

Is there any programs out there for this type or how do you figure them out?

You can use Fizzy Calc, or like I did you can use another mapping program like Street Atlas.

[+Prime Suspect]

Is there any programs out there for this type or how do you figure them out?

You can use Fizzy Calc, or like I did you can use another mapping program like Street Atlas.

Fizzy Calc is a very handy program, but it doesn't do trilateration.

[+Ike 13]

http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/circleplot.html

 

Will draw circles of any radius from any center

[+dprovan]

Fizzy Calc is a very handy program, but it doesn't do trilateration.

FizzyCalc doesn't explicitly solve the problem, that's true, but I use it all the time to trilaterate via successive refined guesses. I use both the distance tool and the projection tool, depending on how the problem is presentated. Not elegant, but it gets the job done.

[7rxc]

Google Earth does reasonably. Use the ruler and some map pins. Apply them to the known locations and use a unit scale that matches for the ruler. Juggle free end pins a bit and you have it.

 

That works for lots of problems loosely referred to as 'triangulation' (probably improper use) but involving 3 distances from known points, or to known points and so forth. Some of us made an Excel worksheet that can do some mathematically well, but I had the answer with the GE tools faster. But then I didn't handle the math part well. That one was for calculating the circumcenter of a circle though, not a true trilateration problem. However you have to have a broad mind since there are many circle / triangle involved cache puzzles and a bunch more variants... on famously uses a simulated LORAN system to solve. So the puzzle guys will be ahead of you if you let them... more fun.

 

Doug 7rxc