[Proj] Common term for geographic and projected coordinates?
Mikael Rittri
Mikael.Rittri at carmenta.com
Wed Feb 4 05:19:12 EST 2009
Gerald wrote:
> A second issue arose and is the preferred or official designation of lat-lon-h coordinates.
> Is geographic or geodetic preferred? I have a tendency to use the two designations
> interchangeably and mix them freely in emails and documentation.
>
> Anyone want to nit-pick over this usage. :-)
Well, h is a hairy issue, with all the different kinds of height.
But for lat-lon, both "geographic coordinates" and "geodetic coordinates"
would be correct, as far as I understand it.
But "geographic coordinates" is probably more common (Google gives 585 000 hits
for "geographic coordinates", and only 19 700 hits for "geodetic coordinates").
Now to my own question: is there a general term that includes both geographic
coordinates (lat-lon) and projected coordinates (easting-northing), as opposed
to pixel coordinates?
I am trying to document a method that tranforms pixel coordinates to
either projected or geographic coordinates, depending on whether the
window is presented with a map projection or just as lat-lon (all right,
Pseudo Plate Carrée).
As you see, I haven't found a snappy way to express it.
I can only think of "georeferenced coordinates", but is there a better term?
Regards,
--
Mikael Rittri
Carmenta AB
SWEDEN
www.carmenta.com
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