Re: What is the spherical radius in GreatCircle?

Thanks Don,

Do the GreatCircle.spherical_* methods also use
Planet.wgs84_earthPolarRadiusMeters? That is, are the
distances, azimuths, and LatLonPoints computed on the
sphere or the spheroid?

Chip Masters

--- Don Dietrick <dietrick@bbn.com> wrote:
> Hi Chip,
>
> The value is in the com.bbn.openmap.proj.Planet
> class.
>
> wgs84_earthEquatorialRadiusMeters = 6378137.0f;
>
> Cheers,
>
> Don
>
> On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 06:51 PM, James
> Masters wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the spherical radius used by the methods
> in
> > com.bbn.openmap.proj.GreatCircle? Is there a
> constant
> > for it that I can access? I have not found it in
> the
> > javadoc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chip Masters
> >
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