Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: double line bug & nautical miles
Date: Nov 24, 2001 @ 05:48
Author: Anton Sherwood (Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>)
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> > > west of wlong 124d 05m 00s 00000 presumably nad83orc@... wrote:
> Grant Hutchison wrote:
> > What latitude? And are we talking west-along-that-parallel or
> > west-from-there-along-the-great-circle?
> dyou mean you need to know the freakin latitude too well of course ahemSo it's west-along-that-parallel then?
> it is n46d15m precisely to as many digits of zero as you like
> & i had thought we were absolutely talking due west here rather thanA loxodrome is a curve which always cuts the lines of longitude
> loxodrome due west if that is what you mean [...]