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Re: Amazingly accurate UTM <-> Lat/Lon transformations [message #85924 is a reply to message #85920]

Wed, 18 September 2013 07:20

Andy Sayer
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Registered: February 2009

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On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:19:13 AM UTC-4, David Fanning wrote:
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> The UTM projection is surely one of the most abused map projections in
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> history. Perhaps scientists should be made to take a quick course on it
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> in additional the the mandatory typing classes I've been advocating
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> forever.
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>
> David Fanning, Ph.D.

As a scientist and self-taught programmer, I completely agree with David that it would have been nice to formally have been taught programming, map projections (I know that I still don't know as much as I should about them), and many other things! As it is we learn as we go and sometimes I shudder to look back at old code.

I also agree with Tom, David etc that if IDL will do the coordinate conversion even when it is not 'sensible', it'd be good for it to be reasonably accurate, and/or have a big obvious warning in the documentation about that.

Andy

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		Amazingly accurate UTM <-> Lat/Lon transformations By: tom.grydeland on Tue, 17 September 2013 01:50
		Re: Amazingly accurate UTM <-> Lat/Lon transformations By: David Fanning on Tue, 17 September 2013 11:16
		Re: Amazingly accurate UTM <-> Lat/Lon transformations By: Fabzi on Wed, 18 September 2013 02:13
		Re: Amazingly accurate UTM <-> Lat/Lon transformations By: David Fanning on Wed, 18 September 2013 06:19
		Re: Amazingly accurate UTM <-> Lat/Lon transformations By: Andy Sayer on Wed, 18 September 2013 07:20
		Re: Amazingly accurate UTM <-> Lat/Lon transformations By: tom.grydeland on Wed, 18 September 2013 02:15
		Re: Amazingly accurate UTM <-> Lat/Lon transformations By: David Fanning on Wed, 18 September 2013 06:04
		Re: Amazingly accurate UTM <-> Lat/Lon transformations By: tom.grydeland on Thu, 19 September 2013 05:40
		Re: Amazingly accurate UTM <-> Lat/Lon transformations By: David Fanning on Thu, 19 September 2013 05:47

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