[Proj] libproj4 update
Gerald I. Evenden
geraldi.evenden at gmail.com
Sat Jun 7 16:37:32 EDT 2008
Libproj4 home web site:
http://members.verizon.net/~gerald.evenden/proj4/
has a new release of the libproj4 libary: new20080604.tar.bz2.
Besides a few corrections the principle item of note are the inclusion of two
wide-latitude versions of Transverse Mercator: ftmerc and etmerc. Their
latitude range extends well beyond the range of tmerc and, except for some
cases, to and beyond 90 degrees.
etmerc is based upon code by K. Engsager, K. Poder and the kind assistance of
Thomas Knudsen.
After installation time trials were made along with accuracy tests where tmerc
excelled in all tests within UTM ranges. For speed:
tmerc: 0.562 usec./forward projection
etmerc: 1.449 usec./forward projection
ftmerc: 2.906 usec./forward projection
Timing was based upon 10,000,000 operations for each trial on a
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz.
tmerc obviously remains the version of choice for UTM because of proven
accuracy over the legal range of UTM as well as performance speed.
I will add some comments on accuracy on later emails.
Note: there is another version, stmerc, in the library but accuracy does not
appear to be a strong point.
As always please email me about any portability and other performance
problems. Bitches will be ignored and kudos will be welcomed.
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