Comment by brgross

4 days ago

I went with great circles since that feels like the most “natural” straight line on a sphere — the path you’d walk if you just kept going forward without steering. You could define "straight" as a constant compass direction (I think it's called a "rhumb") -- that would look straight on a Mercator map but would actually require regular steering adjustments to maintain the bearing.

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munchler  4 days ago

That makes sense, but I think constant latitude, in particular, is a special case that people often have in mind.

  • zamadatix  4 days ago

    The other methods are about defining different meanings of what "going around" actually is while constant latitude is a special case of many such methods, e.g. great circle, not a new definition of what going that way means.