Nick - So how do you refer to a point
a) on the earth's surface (whatever "surface" means, since there is
topography)?
b) in the earth's interior
without numbers?
Al F.
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Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 12:14 PM
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Subject: st: RE: spatwmat: a further thought on XY coordinates
This is not a problem. Most geographers
do not worry about coordinates of any
kind, being somewhat averse to numbers
in any shape or form. Those that do are
aware that the Earth is a oblate spheroid,
and better treated in a non-Cartesian way.
Nick
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Julia Gamas
> XY coordinates may just be referring to the zone pair: So in
> my case if zones 1
> and 2 are neighbors then the XY="12" and "21" entries in the
> table are 1. If
> so it seems a bit "dangerous" to name it this because a
> geographer will
> interpret them as literally the XY coordinates on the globe,
> making the whole
> thing confusing.
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