At 10:30 AM 9/11/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Gavin MacLean's query about bearings prompted a flashback to a recent bit >of trivia I was curious about. If one has a starting point and a bearing >(angle) and plots a line, is there a specific term to describe this line >or the line in the following snipit from Gavin's summary?
As far as I know, this is known as a rhumb. Websters call a rhumb "a line or course on a single bearing" while a rhumb line is "a lne on the surface of the earth which follows a single compass bearing and makes equal oblique angles with all meridians Tom Thomson Northwest Agricultural Consulting 1275 Oak Villa Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dallas, Oregon 97338 Phone/FAX 503-623-0468 "The only difference between a problem and a solution is that everyone understands the solution." Charles Kettering
