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Subject: Re: [boost] geodetic library
From: DE (satan66613_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-28 10:56:43
on 28.08.2009 at 1:15
Michael Fawcett wrote :
> Do you have plans to support WGS84? What about Vincenty?
any system that operates on ellipsoid can be suuported
actually it is a PE-90 implementation (Parameters of the Earth 1990)
however the parameters of ellipsoids of PE-90 andwgs-84 are equal
+-tolerance
in the end you can define your own constants (except pi)
vincenty is another bessel derived method
it is actually very ancient (and less accurate than mine)
however i borrowed some ideas from there
-- Pavel
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