GeodesicDestination produces cyclcically incosistent results about geo HOT 5 CLOSED

For anyone else following up on this ticket, travelling around a geodesic at 45 degrees should look something like this (note that this is exaggerated in comparison to earth, earth has f = 1/298.25) :

Note that the only closed geodesic routes are where we are travelling at either 90 degrees (north-south), or 0 degrees (east-west) around the ellipsoid. Travelling these directions should result in a closed cyclic route.

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Hi @joe-saronic, thanks for the great bug report!

@urschrei, can you assign this ticket to me please? I'm not sure that I'll be able to get too deep into it today, but I'll have time next week.

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@phayes Could you have a look?

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Thank you! Done.

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On a more careful reading of the documentation, I am beginning to think that what I was actually looking for is the Haversine destination. It looks like geodesic destination actually respects the non-spherical model, which correctly accounts for the rotation of the geodesic as it goes around the Earth.

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