Re: What is the spherical radius in GreatCircle?

Hi Chip,

They are all currently computed on the sphere.

- Don

On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 10:46 AM, James Masters wrote:

> 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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