On 11/6/13 1:10 PM, Paul Hobson wrote: > I am **very far** from a GIS expert, but I believe that the cardinal > directions are ambiguous at the poles. In other words, if you're > standing on the North Pole, it'd difficult to head in any direction > that's not towards the south pole. > > Curious to hear if I'm wrong, though.
I'm sure I'm even farther from being a GIS expert (and probably farther from one as well :), but I think you raise an interesting point. My compass would give me directions at the geographic north pole, given that the magnetic north pole is different from the geographic north pole. I'm curious how valid it would be to use magnetic north to assign directions at the geographic north pole. My guess is not very valid, but kind of cool nonetheless. Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
