[Proj] PROJ 4.6.1 Released

RICHARD Didier didier.richard at ign.fr
Mon Sep 1 11:04:47 PDT 2008


> On Monday 01 September 2008 11:51:17 am Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I have promoted the PROJ 4.6.1 RC3 to being the PROJ 4.6.1 final release
>> since there don't seem to be any serious problems with it.  From the
>> news
>> file:
> 	...
>>   o Added the glabsgm (Gauss Laborde / Sphere Geometric Mean)
>> projection,
>>     and gstmerc variation.
>
> Don't they produce the same numbers?  If they do, why two entries?  If
> they do
> not, please let me know.  Anyway, I thought gstmerc was the consensus.
>
> Also, I have no idea what the "Sphere Geometric Mean" applies to in this
> projection?  If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
> 	...

Gerald, all,

Gerald you're right: the former glabsgm was to be replaced with gstmerc !-)

Regards,

didier

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