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Author Topic: What values are used to construct the ellipsoid of the planet?  (Read 2539 times)

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What values are used to construct the ellipsoid of the planet?
« on: November 10, 2016, 01:31:37 pm »
What values does Outerra use in building the ellipsoid of the planet? I thought it was WGS84 but someone said it's different. Under WGS84:

Major axis = 6378.137 km
Minor axis = 6356.752 km
Flattening = 0.00335281066
Eccentricity = 0.08181919092890624

Helpful definitions for people finding this thread later:
http://www.arsitech.com/mapping/geodetic_datum/
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Re: What values are used to construct the ellipsoid of the planet?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2016, 11:11:39 am »
It's not yet actually using ellipsoid for rendering, and for historic reasons it's still a sphere with radius of 6,378,135 m.
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