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Plate Carree: degrees vs metres #653

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rhattersley opened this issue Jul 30, 2015 · 1 comment
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Plate Carree: degrees vs metres #653

rhattersley opened this issue Jul 30, 2015 · 1 comment
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The Plate Carree projection has the strange behaviour that it defaults to "degrees" until you specify a globe, in which case it reverts to metres. Suddenly your coordinates have changed by 4 orders of magnitude!

One solution would be to split the behaviour into two different projections. For example, PlateCarree would always operate in degrees, and EquiRectangular would always operate in metres.
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pelson commented Nov 20, 2017

If only we had Geodetic contouring then most of the time, we wouldn't be using PlateCarree anyway.
I'm going to close this one, as I don't think there is anything we are likely to do about it in the near future.

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