alsk - Inverse problem at the origin long/lat (-152,64)

[proj4-bot]

Reported by fwillett on 10 May 2012 17:35 UTC
System:
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate, SP1, 64 bit
CPU - Intel Core2 Quad CPU @ 2.83 GHz
Memory - 1.86 GB
Running in Oracle VirtualBox 4.16 r74713

Installation:
proj version - Rel. 4.8.0, 6 March 2012
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional Version 10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel
Build commands:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat"
nmake /f makefile.vc
nmake /f makefile.vc install-all

Note: This builds a 32 bit version of the programs and libraries.

In the following the OS prompt is "$" and the proj prompt is "%"

alsk - Inverse problem at the origin long/lat (-152,64)

$ ./proj.exe +proj=alsk
%-152 64
-0.00 0.00
%-152.0001 64.0001
-4.88 11.12

$ ./proj.exe +proj=alsk -I
%0 0
56dE 64dN <<-- Wrong - should be 152dW 64dN
%-4.88 11.12
152d0'0.36"W 64d0'0.36"N <<-- Correct

Migrated-From: https://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ticket/161

[kbevers]

alsk now behaves as expected at the origin:

$ echo -0.0001 -0.0001 |./proj -I -f %10.10f +proj=alsk
-152.0000000020 63.9999999991

$ echo 0 0 |./proj -I -f %10.10f +proj=alsk
-152.0000000000 64.0000000000

 echo 0.0001 0.0001 |./proj -I -f %10.10f +proj=alsk
-151.9999999980 64.0000000009