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Re: The pedant's rhumb-line.
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2002 Oct 11, 06:17 -0700
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2002 Oct 11, 06:17 -0700
On 10 Oct 2002, at 12:53, David Weilacher wrote: > Well. Crap. Although this piece was entertaining, educational, and thought > provoking, it will have everyone on this listed specifying "shortest" > rhumb-line where just rhumb-line used to do :-} [Snip Good Stuff] I don't know what a "shortest rhumb line" would be, but it is a straight line on a Mercator chart. Also a rhumb line, once known/called a loxodrome, spirals toward the pole. I was surprised that the explanation is STILL in the 1995 Bowditch. Cheers -Dan-
