Generalizations Rhumb line
the surface of earth can understood mathematically riemann sphere, is, projection of sphere complex plane. in case, loxodromes can understood classes of möbius transformations.
spheroid
the formulation above can extended spheroid. course of rhumb line found merely using ellipsoidal isometric latitude. distances found multiplying ellipsoidal meridian arc length secant of azimuth.
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