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<h1>Getting Started </h1> </div>
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<center> Back to <a class="el" href="intro.html">Introduction</a>. Forward to <a class="el" href="organization.html">Code organization</a>. Up to <a class="el" href="index.html#contents">Contents</a>. </center><p>The following steps will get you started with GeographicLib:</p>
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<li>Download the <a href="http://sf.net/projects/geographiclib/files/distrib/geographiclib-1.8.tar.gz/download">source</a>.</li>
<li>Unpack the tar file somewhere convenient with, e.g.,<ul>
<li>tar xfpvz geographiclib-1.8.tar.gz</li>
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This will create a geographiclib-1.8 directory. (Alternatively, download and unpack the zip file.)</li>
<li>Change to the geographiclib-1.8 directory<ul>
<li>cd geographiclib-1.8</li>
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<li>Create the library and the utility programs<ul>
<li>make all</li>
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The compiled utility programs are in the tools directory.</li>
<li>windows/GeographicLib-vc9.sln (resp. vc8) is MS Visual Studio 2008 (resp. 2005) solution file which compiles the library and the utility programs under Windows. (Visual Studio 2010 is also supported with a vc10 suffix.)</li>
<li>Try out <a href="GeoConvert.1.html">GeoConvert</a> (for help, type cd tools; ./GeoConvert --help)<ul>
<li>echo 33.3 44.4 | ./GeoConvert -m -p -3</li>
<li>echo 38SMB4484 | ./GeoConvert -d</li>
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<li>Similarly, try out <a href="Geod.1.html">Geod</a>, <a href="Planimeter.1.html">Planimeter</a>, <a href="TransverseMercatorTest.1.html">TransverseMercatorTest</a>, <a href="CartConvert.1.html">CartConvert</a>, and <a href="EquidistantTest.1.html">EquidistantTest</a>. <a href="GeoidEval.1.html">GeoidEval</a> requires the installation of geoid data, see <a class="el" href="geoid.html#geoidinst">Installing the datasets</a>.</li>
<li>Read the section, <a class="el" href="organization.html">Code organization</a>, for an overview of the library.</li>
<li>Browse the <a href="annotated.html">Class List</a> for full documentation on the library.</li>
<li>Read the section, <a class="el" href="transversemercator.html">Transverse Mercator Projection</a>, for more information on this projection.</li>
<li>If you use the library frequently, install it, e.g., to $(PREFIX) = /usr/local with<ul>
<li>make PREFIX=/usr/local install install-doc</li>
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<li>There is an interface for some GeographicLib classes to Matlab and Octave. The geographiclibinterface function in the matlab directory compiles the interface routines.</li>
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<p>Here's a list of some of the abbreviations used here with links to the corresponding Wikipedia articles:</p>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGS84">WGS84</a>, World Geodetic System 1984.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system">UTM</a>, Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Polar_Stereographic">UPS</a>, Universal Polar Stereographic coordinate system.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_grid_reference_system">MGRS</a>, Military Grid Reference System.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid">EGM</a>, Earth Gravity Model.</li>
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