=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_=27Yadgar=27_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> High!
>
> > The official cartographical term is "equidistant cylindrical projection" (aka
> > "plate carree projection").
>
> Yes, a "Rechteckige Plattkarte" in German!

Sounds like a typical German army term...

> Interesting...are you a professional cartographer/student of geography?

No, just an incredibly nosey person - all I *really* knew was how the
projections in POV are defined mathematically, and that there was obviously an
issue of technical terms when I saw you call POV's "spherical" projection a
"cylindrical" projection; everything beyond "caution, there's potential for a
mixup here" was the result of some WIYF'ing, to make that statement a bit more
precise... and make me appear smarter than I really am :P

(If you'd ask me about the same stuff tomorrow, I'd probably have to look it up
all over again... though I'd get there a bit quicker ;))

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