[Proj] A bit of help with French, por favor.

[Clifford J Mugnier]

The sphère de courbure has an intermediate sphere with a radius equal to the
radius of curvature at the touching point - or something like that.

That's the Gaussian Sphere.
 
Cliff Muginer
LSU

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This has been discussed earlier in the case of the French  Laborde
projections.
(I have currently no access to my files or emails, so from memory...)
If I remember correctly, the libproj stmerc projection was the same as one
of the 3 French (IGN) Laborde projections.
I assume that these projections are double projections and work with an
intermediate sphere.
The sphère de courbure has an intermediate sphere with a radius equal to the
radius of curvature at the touching point - or something like that.
The sphère équatorial has a radius equal to the semi-major (equatorial) axis
of the ellipsoid.
The sphère bitangente touches the ellipsoid twice, I guess. Don't ask me
where, but this could give a clue looking at the formulae.
See:
http://www.ign.fr/rubrique.asp?rbr_id=1700&lng_id=FR#68096
and NT/G 73 for the French Laborde projection formulae.
Hope this will help.

Oscar van Vlijmen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald I. Evenden" <geraldi.evenden at gmail.com>
To: "PROJ.4 and general Projections Discussions" <proj at lists.maptools.org>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 5:28 PM
Subject: [Proj] A bit of help with French, por favor.


>I have run into three phrases labeling projection states:
>
> cas de la sphere de courbure
> cas de la sphere equatoriale
> cas de la sphere bitangente
>
> The equitorial case seems obvious, the translation web site can't come up
> with
> anything for bitangente and "curve" for courbure does not mean anything to
> me.
>
> Any ideas would be helpful.
>
>


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