[Proj] gaus-kruger projection

Gerald I. Evenden geraldi.evenden at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 12:10:25 PST 2009


On Friday 06 February 2009 5:06:47 am Mikael Rittri wrote:
> There is no need to recompile proj.4. Gauss was a very productive guy.
> I don't think the pj_gauss.c has anything at all to do with Gauss-Kruger

Indeed, it does not.  pj_gauss is a conformal transformation procedure to 
transfer lat-lon from the ellipse to a sphere and is used as a part of 
projection procedures.

All notes about Gauss-Kruger being Transverse Mercator or "tmerc" are correct.

There are a lot of file names in the proj-4-x distributions that are *not* 
projections but support procedures.

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