[Proj] PROJ 4.6.1 Released

Gerald I. Evenden geraldi.evenden at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 12:35:53 EDT 2008


On Monday 01 September 2008 11:51:17 am Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have promoted the PROJ 4.6.1 RC3 to being the PROJ 4.6.1 final release
> since there don't seem to be any serious problems with it.  From the news
> file:
	...
>   o Added the glabsgm (Gauss Laborde / Sphere Geometric Mean) projection,
>     and gstmerc variation.

Don't they produce the same numbers?  If they do, why two entries?  If they do 
not, please let me know.  Anyway, I thought gstmerc was the consensus.

Also, I have no idea what the "Sphere Geometric Mean" applies to in this 
projection?  If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
	...
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