[Gdal-dev] Re: GDAL and Spot Vegetation

[Norman Vine]

Vincent Schut writes:
>
> About Plate Caree, I'm not sure either. I used a simple lat/long wgs84 
> configuration which looked OK. It is however possible that better projection 
> parameters exist... 

"Plate Caree" is just another name for "Equidistant Cylindrical"  Projection
i.e. linear scaling of latitudes and longitudes

In other words, all meridians and parallels are straight lines. 

HTH

Norman