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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=2>It's not purely an "academic" horse if you practice in the oil patch. Reservoir engineers want a system recognizable to them and don't really care about practical geodetic applications, ... just solutions to their own problems and UTM is the way they want to go.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>You're not going to succeed in educating the entire world's Oil Patch industry.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>There are practical applications to this even if a classical cartographer is ignorant of the reasons.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>The horse ain't dead, just maybe the jockey.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Cliff Mugnier</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> proj-bounces@lists.maptools.org on behalf of Gerald I. Evenden<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sat 24-May-08 09:39<BR><B>To:</B> PROJ.4 and general Projections Discussions<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Proj] Re: Transverse Mercator algorithm with good accuracy/speedtrade-off?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Ahhh! Sigh, Deja vu all over again. I thought we beat this dead horse and<BR>Dosier several years ago.<BR><BR>It seems worthless to expand the longitudinal accuracy of the projection as<BR>long as the scale error and usefulness also goes to hell at the same time. <BR>The useful range for the tmerc is in the immediate vicinity of the central<BR>meridian so why bother worrying about extending computational accuracy in the<BR>longitudinal direction?<BR><BR>Enough is enough. Please.<BR><BR>--<BR>The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due<BR>to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.<BR>-- Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) British psychologist<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Proj mailing list<BR>Proj@lists.maptools.org<BR><A href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/proj">http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/proj</A><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>