[PROJ] Geodetic vs Geocentric

[Javier Jimenez Shaw]

Do you mean that a geocentric system is using the geodetic latitude and the
geodetic system is using a geocentric latitude? Interesting

On Wed, 18 Oct 2023, 18:25 Even Rouault via PROJ, <proj at lists.osgeo.org>
wrote:

> | -ocentric latitude (angle between the equatorial plane and the point
> on the ellipsoid)
>
> Actually: angle between the equatorial plane and the vector from the
> center of the ellipsoid to the point of interest
>
> And we have actually a nice schema at
> https://proj.org/en/9.3/operations/conversions/geoc.html :-)
>
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