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Docs: "Ellipsoids" page lists only 10 ellipsoids, while proj -le lists 46 ones #4253

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agiudiceandrea opened this issue Sep 17, 2024 · 1 comment
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agiudiceandrea commented Sep 17, 2024

The "Built-in ellipsoid definitions" section of the "Ellipsoids" page lists the following 10 ellipsoids' definitions

ellps Parameters Datum name
GRS80 a=6378137.0 rf=298.257222101 GRS 1980(IUGG, 1980)
airy a=6377563.396 b=6356256.910 Airy 1830
bessel a=6377397.155 rf=299.1528128 Bessel 1841
clrk66 a=6378206.4 b=6356583.8 Clarke 1866
intl a=6378388.0 rf=297. International 1909 (Hayford)
WGS60 a=6378165.0 rf=298.3 WGS 60
WGS66 a=6378145.0 rf=298.25 WGS 66
WGS72 a=6378135.0 rf=298.26 WGS 72
WGS84 a=6378137.0 rf=298.257223563 WGS 84
sphere a=6370997.0 b=6370997.0 Normal Sphere (r=6370997)

while the proj -le output contains 46 ellipsoids's definitions.

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mwtoews commented Sep 21, 2024

Related to #4053 where we may want to display something like "Note that the following list is no longer updated, and some values may conflict with other sources" above the table. I was going to get around to this at some stage...

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