[Proj] Novice Examples?

[Mikael Rittri]

Hello Michael,

I believe +R_A does not take any value; it is enough if it is present.

And the +e=0.5 looks strange. Isn't +e the eccentricity of the ellipsoid?
You should not need to specify +e, since you have already specified the
ellipsoid to be WGS84 (which is overridden by R_A which says to use a
sphere with the same area as the WGS84 ellipsoid).
  
Anyway, the value of +e for the Earth should be something like 0.082.
A value of 0.5 is so far outside the usual range that some projections
may stop working, I believe.

If I use

>proj +proj=cea +lon_0=0 +R_A +ellps=WGS84

I get 

in:  0 0
out: 0.00    0.00

in:  30 30
out: 3335851.56      3185503.59

in:  0 90
out: 0.00    6371007.18

in:  90 0
out: 10007554.68     0.00

Don't know if these values are what you want (I am not so familiar with +proj=cea),
but at least it doesn't crash.

Best regards,
  
Mikael Rittri
Carmenta
Sweden
http://www.carmenta.com

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From: proj-bounces at lists.maptools.org [mailto:proj-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Michael Speth
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 1:05 AM
To: proj at lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [Proj] Novice Examples?


Thank you Frank for helping me with the initial parameters for testing Spheroids!  I am now trying to test Ellipsoidals  and I have a problem with the parameters I am passing proj.4.

Here are the arguments that I am trying to use:


	./proj +proj=cea +lon_0=0 +e=0.5 +R_A=1 +ellps=WGS84 -E <<EOF
	0 0
	EOF
	

And the resulting output:


	Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009
	<lt-proj>: 
	projection initialization failure
	cause: invalid boolean param argument
	program abnormally terminated
	

Anyone know what I've done incorrectly?

Thank you for your help.

On 05/10/11 12:25, Frank Warmerdam wrote: 

	On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Michael Speth
	<spethm at landcareresearch.co.nz> <mailto:spethm at landcareresearch.co.nz>  wrote:
	

		Greetings,
		  I am a new proj.4 user and I would like to try some simple examples.
		I have been reading the user doc as well as the update (proj.4.3.pdf);
		however, I have been unsuccessful with executing the examples listed.
		
		---- [ System Information] ----
		System: Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit
		Kernel: 2.6.38-11-generic
		Proj.4 Version: 4.7.0 compiled from tarball
		
		Here are two examples that show my problem:
		---- [Example 1] ----
		/opt/proj-4.7.0/src$ ./proj +proj=poly +lon_0=-66 +lat_0=40 -v
		Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009
		<lt-proj>:
		projection initialization failure
		cause: major axis or radius = 0 or not given
		program abnormally terminated
		
		---- [Example 2] -----
		/opt/proj-4.7.0/src$ ./proj +proj=poly +lon_0=-60 -E <<EOF
		 > # sample points
		 > 65W 43d15N
		 > -55 37.33
		 > EOF
		Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009
		<lt-proj>:
		projection initialization failure
		cause: major axis or radius = 0 or not given
		program abnormally terminated
		---------------------------
		
		It seems that I am not providing the radius or major axis.  Is this
		correct, if so, how do I provide this information?
		

	Michael,
	
	You can specify the earth model several ways, but adding +ellps=WGS84
	is a fairly simple way.
	
	eg.
	 ./proj +proj=poly +lon_0=-60 +ellps=WGS84 -E <<EOF
	
	Note that PROJ usually picks up the default ellipsoid from an initialization
	file but that doesn't work if you are running proj locally instead of first
	installing it.  The main thing fetched from the defaults initialization file
	is a default ellipsoid.
	
	Best regards,