[Proj] Exact transverse Mercator code

Gerald I. Evenden geraldi.evenden at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 07:32:54 PST 2009


Ah!  Nothing like more mental masturbation or should we call it 
TM---transverse mediation?

On Sunday 01 February 2009 4:23:44 am strebe wrote:
> Mr. Karney:
>
> I found your work very interesting. Thank you for the excellent depth.
>
> I've posted here and image of yet another ellipsoidal transverse Mercator
> variation: http://www.mapthematics.com/Wallis1TransverseMercator.tif

Please, there is no reason for tiff format when jpeg is *very* adequate for 
display and thus saving a great deal of download time for the speed impared.

> This one's properties are:
>      Conformal (of course)
>      Straight central meridian (of course)

Most importantly, is the scale constant along the central meridian?

>      Parallels are equally spaced.
>
> The importance of this last property is that the projection then may be
...

I'm putting a block on future TM transmissions.

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to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
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