Hi,
I see Adrian's point, but in actual fact I still say my statement was
well-posed.
I agree with you.
From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical_projection#Projections_by_preservation_of_a_metric_property,
one can see that projections may have very interesting properties like
preserving areas, angles or distances along certain lines, but it seems
that the projection preserving distances in every direction does not
exist (how simple would be the life of cartographers if it did !)
The fractional dimension of coastlines is another interesting but
different problem, I suggest to introduce fractal geometries and
fractional dimensions in JTS version 3.3333333333333333333333... ;-)
Michaël
Stefan Steiniger wrote:
sorry for the question:
but what is the title of the paper and who are the authors? I didn't
found that info anywhere in the emails
stefan
2009/2/7 Adrian Custer wrote:
(Off topic)
This is a particularly unfortunate example since this very
question (for
England, not Canada) was the title of a landmark scientific paper
which
showed the question to be meaningless.
Even more off topic.. but it's interesting to see that over 40 years
after its publication, this paper is still regularly cited. It hasn't
yet undergone the final transition of a classic paper - to become so
much part of our worldview that we take it for granted and don't even
think to cite it.
Apologies to the OP for this little highjack :)
Michael
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