How to compute hypotenuse and bearing

Question

I got the below code from @DanS at this link how-to-display-a-map-still-image-file-with-a-moving-current-location

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Answer 1

This is the actual code I'm using, not pseudo code posted previously:

Location upperLeft = new Location("");
upperLeft.setLatitude(41.866514127810355);
upperLeft.setLongitude(-87.6720142364502);
Location lowerRight = new Location("");
lowerRight.setLatitude(41.83397145565242);
lowerRight.setLongitude(-87.62824058532715);
Location current = new Location("");
current.setLatitude(41.850033);
current.setLongitude(-87.65005229999997);
double hypotenuse = upperLeft.distanceTo(current);
double bearing = upperLeft.bearingTo(current);
double currentDistanceX = Math.cos(bearing * Math.PI / 180.0) * hypotenuse;
//                     "percentage to mark the position"
double totalHypotenuse = upperLeft.distanceTo(lowerRight);
double totalDistanceX = totalHypotenuse * Math.cos(upperLeft.bearingTo(lowerRight) * Math.PI / 180.0);
double currentPixelX = currentDistanceX / totalDistanceX * 512;

System.out.println(currentPixelX); // 259.3345493341548

Your calculated answer looks a bit off. To calculate Y change copy all the X marked calculations and variables to use Math.sin() instead of Math.cos().