rhumb line

In practice, though, the winning route is usually somewhere between the great circle and the rhumb line.

Would they recognize familiar territory among its rhumb lines and wind roses?

From that corner, emanate a series of compass rhumb lines.

Most take the rhumb line, the most direct route from Chicago to the island up the middle of the lake.

Rhumb lines are the surest link he has with his past, indeed with himself.

The final part of the work contained a treatise inspired by Harriot on rhumb lines.

Several point-scoring rhumb line combinations may be completed at one time with a single nugget.

A rhumb line appears as a straight line on a Mercator projection map.

These charts showed coastline with rhumb lines connecting ports.

Over longer distances and/or at higher latitudes the great circle route is significantly shorter than the rhumb line between the same two points.

Legend 12 The distinction between great circles and rhumb lines and the measurement of the latter.

They are utterly bewitched by the prospect of continuing along one rhumb line until it reaches its farthest point.

If there is a tide flowing, to avoid being swept downtide you can take a transit on the next mark to steer the rhumb line.

Others say one should face the direction along a rhumb line path to Jerusalem, which would not require an alteration of compass direction.

While boats mainly plied seas the size of the Mediterranean, rhumb lines were sufficient for navigation.

Alternatively a rhumb line course could be flown on the Croydon-Chelsfield-Lympne route.

A straight line on the Mercator map at angle α to the meridians is a rhumb line.

The gap between the curves of an Archimedean spiral (right picture) remains constant as the radius changes and hence is not a rhumb line.

Known as "Portolan charts", these maps are characterized by extremely accurate coastlines with criss-crossing rhumb lines.

However the inconvenience of having to continuously change bearings while travelling a great circle route makes rhumb line navigation appealing in certain instances.

In particular, the straight lines emanating from the compass roses are not rhumb lines so that they do not give a true bearing.

In navigation, departure is the distance made good in an east--west direction when going from one place to another (for example, along a rhumb line).

Gerardus Mercator made a practical map of the world, using the projection named after him which conveniently makes navigation rhumb lines straight.

As the breeze was blowing directly up the rhumb line from astern, the idea was to jibe downwind for maximum speed.

The principal feature of the projection is that Rhumb lines, sailing courses at a constant bearing, are mapped to straight lines on the map.