[Proj] Projection Dev - How to call other projections from aprojection?
Charles Karney
charles.karney at sri.com
Mon Oct 10 08:32:22 EST 2011
This may be true is cartography. It's only partly true in geodesy --
some authors make a distinction, e.g.,
W. A. Heiskanen and H. Moritz, Physical Geodesy,
(Freeman, San Fransisco, 1967)
use spheroid to refer to an approximately spherical shape. (This was,
presumably, its original meaning.)
On 10/09/11 19:43, Noel Zinn (cc) wrote:
> "Spheroid" and "ellipsoid" are synonyms for the same thing in geodesy and
> cartography.
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