[Proj] triaxial ellipsoid
Charles Karney
charles.karney at sri.com
Wed Jan 9 11:53:22 EST 2013
On 2012-10-17 11:25, Aleksander Yanovskiy wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Could you please suggest me a software library that can calculate distances on the surface of the triaxial Earth ellipsoid ?
>
Jean-Marc Baillard has coded up Jacobi's solution for geodesics on a
triaxial ellipsoid for an HP-41 calculator, see
http://hp41programs.yolasite.com/geod3axial.php
I've also written up some notes on the problem which may be of interest
http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/1.29/triaxial.html
Disclaimer: A triaxial ellipsoid approximates the earth only slightly
better than an ellipsoid of revolution. If you are really considering
measuring distances on the earth using a triaxial ellipsoid, you should
also be worrying about the shape of the geoid (which essentially makes
the geodesic problem a hopeless mess).
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