From kls Sat Oct 12 02:35:55 1996 Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners,sci.aeronautics Path: bounce-back From: jahlstro@cisco.com (John Ahlstrom) Subject: Re: Great Circle mapper Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM References: Organization: cisco Systems, Incorporated Date: 12 Oct 96 02:35:55 Message-ID: In article , kls@ohare.Chicago.COM (Karl Swartz) writes: >In May, 1994, Terry Drinkard started a thread on Really Long Range >Commercial Transports. That sent me scurrying for my atlas and to >find an equation for computing great circle distances, and was the >genesis of a much larger project -- not just to compute distances >along a great circle route, but to show them on a map. I have seen (in a restaurant!) a large number of maps each of which was centered on a major world city and any straight line form which was a great circle. Does anyone know where I can buy such maps? Does anyone know of any PC or workstation software that generates such maps? Thanks -- John Ahlstrom jahlstrom@cisco.com 408-526-6025 Using Java to Decrease Entropy Any neural system sufficiently complex to generate the axioms of arithmetic is too complex to be understood by itself. Kaekel's Conjecture