Coordinates + xy offset or heading & distance to new coordinate?

[lucasw]

Does geopy have the equivalent of geographiclib Direct to get latitude and longitude given an initial lat, lng and either an xy distance in meters (where a pure x move should result in only a longitude change, and a y move should only change latitude), or a heading and meters distance? This would be the inverse of distance().

Either of these describe the problem well if the above doesn't:

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/349458/python-for-finding-the-gps-coordinates-of-a-point-x-distance-between-2-other-gps or https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/2951/algorithm-for-offsetting-a-latitude-longitude-by-some-amount-of-meters

[lucasw]

I think destination is it https://geopy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#geopy.distance.Distance.destination

import geopy


loc0 = (50.0, -120.0)

# 0.0 is north, 90.0 is east, etc.
heading_degrees = 90.0
distance0 = 1000.0
print(f"heading degrees {heading_degrees}, distance to travel {distance0} meters")
print(f"start location:        {loc0}")

loc1_pt = geopy.distance.distance(meters=distance0).destination(loc0, bearing=heading_degrees)
loc1 = (loc1_pt.latitude, loc1_pt.longitude)
print(f"destination location:  {loc1}")

distance1 = geopy.distance.distance(loc0, loc1).meters
print(f"{distance1} meters traveled, error {distance1 - abs(distance0)}")

heading degrees 90.0, distance to travel 1000.0 meters
start location:        (50.0, -120.0)
destination location:  (49.99999916171902, -119.98605217271634)
999.9999999996342 meters traveled, error -3.658442437881604e-10