Question

I have a three lat-lon coordinates that make up two line segment A to B to C. I also found a function that can return north-bearing of a line segment A-B or B-C in -180 to 180 manner. However, I’m having trouble to determine when a car reaches from A to B, should it turn right or left to continue to C.

Answer 1

EDIT: Previous answer was wrong. now this is the correct

public Direction GetDirection(Point a, Point b, Point c)
{
    double theta1 = GetAngle(a, b); 
    double theta2 = GetAngle(b, c);
    double delta = NormalizeAngle(theta2 - theta1);

    if ( delta == 0 )
        return Direction.Straight;
    else if ( delta == Math.PI )
        return Direction.Backwards;
    else if ( delta < Math.PI )
        return Direction.Left;
    else return Direction.Right;
}

private Double GetAngle(Point p1, Point p2)
{
    Double angleFromXAxis = Math.Atan ((p2.Y - p1.Y ) / (p2.X - p1.X ) ); // where y = m * x + K
    return  p2.X - p1.X < 0 ? m + Math.PI : m ); // The will go to the correct Quadrant
}

private Double NormalizeAngle(Double angle)
{
    return angle < 0 ? angle + 2 * Math.PI : angle; //This will make sure angle is [0..2PI]
}