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Re: Great circle crossing the Equator on a Mercator's Chart?
From: Doug Faunt
Date: 2021 Dec 23, 15:45 -0800
From: Doug Faunt
Date: 2021 Dec 23, 15:45 -0800
I was taught to break it and do separate segments north and south.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021, 15:10 David Pike <NoReply_DavidPike@fer3.com> wrote:
Have you noticed? All the great minds writing online rejoice in giving examples of rhumb lines and great circles on a Mercator’s chart in either hemisphere, but try and find an example of great circle crossing the Equator on a Mercator’s chart. You’ll struggle to find one, so perhaps the authors are not so clever after all. How do you think you would draw a great circle from 40N, 40W to 40S, 40E for example? DaveP
