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Straight lines on a sphere
There was a question in the Sql Server Spatial/Katmai forums about why a straight line on a sphere didn't "look straight". Katmai both have planar and spherical geometry types. The spherical type...
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I just received an update from the EPSG mailing list: New to Version 6.15 are (among other things): Added spherical Mercator coordinate operation method and associated CRS as seen in popular web...
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Why EPSG:4326 is usually the wrong “projection”
…or why spherical coordinate systems are not flat! One of the most common ways the round world is displayed on a map is using the simplest projection we have: x = longitude y = latitude The name of...
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