As the title says, how to randomly select a coordinate on the surface of the Earth without bias? The simple solution of doing rand(-90,90),rand(-180,180) will favor polar regions over equatorial regions.
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As the title says, how to randomly select a coordinate on the surface of the Earth without bias? The simple solution of doing rand(-90,90),rand(-180,180) will favor polar regions over equatorial regions.
It sounds like you’re looking for a uniform random distribution on a sphere.
In spherical coordinates: