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Re: Geodetic functions library GeoDLL 32 Bit and 64 Bit

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On Jul 20, 8:43 pm, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:14:33 -0700 (PDT), Fred <kil...@killetsoft.de>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>
>
> >who develops programs with geodetic functionality like world-wide coordinat=
> >e transformations or distance calculations, can work with the latest versio=
> >n of my GeoDLL. The Dynamic Link Library can easily be used with any progra=
> >mming language to add geodetic functionality to own applications.=20
>
> I learned as a child that the earth is pear shaped.  What sort of
> co-ordinate system would you use say for land or water elevations?
> I don't have any use for myself just now, but I know how complex the
> calculations are.  I would like to thank you for releasing this to the
> world.

The Earth deviates from perfectly spherical by about a third of a
percent.  It deviates from an oblate spheroid by far, far less than
that, "millionths of an inch per mile".  It deviates from flat by
about eight inches per mile.
<http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm>

--
Lew
"It is only because the difference between the rate of change in a
static universe and the rate of change in an evolutionary one is that
between zero and very nearly zero that the creationists can continue
propagating their folly." [ibid.]

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Geodetic functions library GeoDLL 32 Bit and 64 Bit Fred <killet@killetsoft.de> - 2011-07-20 00:14 -0700
  Re: Geodetic functions library GeoDLL 32 Bit and 64 Bit Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-07-20 20:43 -0700
    Re: Geodetic functions library GeoDLL 32 Bit and 64 Bit lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-20 21:16 -0700
  Re: Geodetic functions library GeoDLL 32 Bit and 64 Bit lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-20 21:17 -0700

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