In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rex writes: >On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:07:11 +0000, "Poul-Henning Kamp" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>You say, "the ellipsoide actually isn't one". I don't understand what >>>that might mean. Care to elaborate? >> >>It is not an ellipsoide, it is some other weird ballon-animal shape. >> > >So, I think the ellipsoid is our best way of describing the rotational >approximation of the world vs a simple sphere. I guess you are saying >that the real shape of the world differs more in your area than in most >of the rest of the world from the ellipsoide model. Is that a correct >interpretation?
Not the world, the envelope of uncertainty on the GPS position fix. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
