[Proj] Algorithms for geodesics

[Gerald I. Evenden]

On 07/16/2012 10:36 AM, Charles Karney wrote:
> On 2012-07-16 10:15, Alexander Holsteinson wrote:
>> Did the guys from Google Earth ever address the problems you indicated
>> to them regarding their model?
>>
> No, I couldn't get any traction on my concerns.  Undoubtedly, they see
> their customers as ordinary consumers who are chiefly interested in a
> responsive GUI and pretty pictures and who are less interested in the
> precision of the data.
>
>     --Charles
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What a surprise.

Seriously, I would be surprised if there was any other response. Google
is not a Nat'l Geog. Society clone likely to spend hours on the technical
minutia of cartography.

-- "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as 
false, and by rulers as useful." Seneca