[PROJ] Rads/Degs

Lesparre, Jochem Jochem.Lesparre at kadaster.nl
Wed Feb 13 23:33:06 PST 2019


> > > the angular unit of the source (resp target) CRS, which will generally be
> > > degrees (except a few ancient French SRS that take grads)

For the right historical perspective it is better to describe the gon/grad CRS as "French revolutionary", since the French monarchy that was overtrown by the revolution is refered to as "ancien régime" and it were the revolutionaries that gave us the gon (and the metre).

Regards, Jochem


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