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st: RE: spatwmat: a further thought on XY coordinates


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: spatwmat: a further thought on XY coordinates
Date   Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:13:54 -0000

This is not a problem. Most geographers 
do not worry about coordinates of any 
kind, being somewhat averse to numbers 
in any shape or form. Those that do are 
aware that the Earth is a oblate spheroid, 
and better treated in a non-Cartesian way. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Julia Gamas

> XY coordinates may just be referring to the zone pair:  So in 
> my case if zones 1
> and 2 are neighbors then the XY="12" and "21" entries in the 
> table are 1.  If
> so it seems a bit "dangerous" to name it this because a 
> geographer will
> interpret them as literally the XY coordinates on the globe, 
> making the whole
> thing confusing.  

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