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Note that spherical and geodetic latitudes are equal in spherical ellipsoids #324

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Expand Up @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Each point can be represented by its *longitude* (:math:`\lambda`),
The *longitude* coordinates defined in *spherical coordinates* and in
*geodetic coordinates* are equivalent.
Nevertheless, the *spherical latitude* and the (geodetic) *latitude* are
not.
not. They would be the same if the reference ellipsoid were a sphere.

The *longitude* and *spherical latitude* are angles given in decimal degrees,
while the *radius* is the Euclidean distance between the point and the origin
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