pygplates.LatLonPoint

class pygplates.LatLonPoint

Bases: Boost.Python.instance

Represents a point in 2D geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude).

LatLonPoints are not equality (==, !=) comparable (will raise TypeError when compared) and are not hashable (cannot be used as a key in a dict).

As a convenience the North and South poles are available as class attributes:

pygplates.LatLonPoint.north_pole
pygplates.LatLonPoint.south_pole

__init__(latitude, longitude)

Create a LatLonPoint instance from a latitude and longitude.

Parameters

latitude (float) – the latitude (in degrees)
longitude (float) – the longitude (in degrees)

Raises

InvalidLatLonError if latitude or longitude is invalid

point = pygplates.LatLonPoint(latitude, longitude)

Note

latitude must satisfy is_valid_latitude() and longitude must satisfy is_valid_longitude(), otherwise InvalidLatLonError will be raised.

Methods

`__init__`(latitude, longitude)	Create a LatLonPoint instance from a latitude and longitude.
`get_latitude`()	Returns the latitude (in degrees).
`get_longitude`()	Returns the longitude (in degrees).
`is_valid_latitude`(latitude)	[staticmethod] Returns `True` if latitude is in the range [-90, 90].
`is_valid_longitude`(longitude)	[staticmethod] Returns `True` if longitude is in the range [-360, 360].
`to_lat_lon`()	Returns the tuple (latitude,longitude) in degrees.
`to_point_on_sphere`()	Returns the cartesian coordinates as a `PointOnSphere`.
`to_xyz`()	Returns the cartesian coordinates as the tuple (x,y,z).

Attributes

`north_pole`
`south_pole`

get_latitude()

Returns the latitude (in degrees).

Return type: float

get_longitude()

Returns the longitude (in degrees).

Return type: float

static is_valid_latitude(latitude)

[staticmethod] Returns True if latitude is in the range [-90, 90].

Parameters: latitude (float) – the latitude (in degrees)
Return type: bool

if pygplates.LatLonPoint.is_valid_latitude(latitude):
  ...

static is_valid_longitude(longitude)

[staticmethod] Returns True if longitude is in the range [-360, 360].

Parameters: longitude (float) – the longitude (in degrees)
Return type: bool

GPlates uses the half-open range (-180.0, 180.0], but accepts [-360.0, 360.0] as input

if pygplates.LatLonPoint.is_valid_longitude(longitude):
  ...

to_lat_lon()

Returns the tuple (latitude,longitude) in degrees.

Return type: the tuple (float,float)

latitude, longitude = lat_lon_point.to_lat_lon()

to_point_on_sphere()

Returns the cartesian coordinates as a PointOnSphere.

Return type: PointOnSphere

to_xyz()

Returns the cartesian coordinates as the tuple (x,y,z).

Return type: the tuple (float,float,float)

x, y, z = lat_lon_point.to_xyz()

This is similar to PointOnSphere.to_xyz().