[Proj] Length of a deg in metres
Nicolas Cadieux
nicolas.cadieux at archeotec.ca
Fri Nov 9 05:33:21 PST 2018
Hi,
Thanks everyone for pointing me in useful directions.
Nicolas
> Le 9 nov. 2018 à 05:30, Luís Moreira de Sousa <luis.de.sousa at protonmail.ch> a écrit :
>
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> PROJ itself relies on the GeographicLib package [0] for the computation of geodesics and rhumb lines. Since you are programming in Python, the easiest option is to use directly the GeographicLib port to Python [1].
>
> Regards.
>
> [0] https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/
> [1] https://pypi.org/project/geographiclib/
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>> On Thursday, November 8, 2018 4:18 PM, Nicolas Cadieux <nicolas.cadieux at archeotec.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am writing to python code to calculate the length (in metres) of a
>> degree of longitude at a certain degree of latitude. I would like to
>> take various ellipsoid in mind (WGS84, GRS80, Clarke 1866...). The goal
>> is to find the right scale (or z factor) when making slope or shade
>> raster models when x and y are in long/lat and z in feet or meters. Can
>> someone point me in the right direction to do this in using Proj? Is
>> Proj the best option for this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nicolas
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