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Re: Question about projection for Google Earth [message #85581 is a reply to message #85576]

Mon, 19 August 2013 05:26

David Fanning
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timothyja123@gmail.com writes:

> "The problem is that my lon/lat values contain a different number of values and Map_Proj_Forward() is complaining about this. Whay do they need to be the same? My overlay is a rectangular shape rather than a square why can this not be handled? "

In my experience, if you want things to work the way you expect them to
work, you would be better off using Coyote Library routines than IDL
routines. :-)

But, yes, make rectangles out of your Lat/Lon vectors as Fabien
suggests, and you will be fine.

Cheers,

David

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		Question about projection for Google Earth By: timothyja123 on Thu, 08 August 2013 19:11
		Re: Question about projection for Google Earth By: David Fanning on Thu, 08 August 2013 19:26
		Re: Question about projection for Google Earth By: timothyja123 on Thu, 08 August 2013 21:50
		Re: Question about projection for Google Earth By: David Fanning on Fri, 09 August 2013 03:51
		Re: Question about projection for Google Earth By: timothyja123 on Sun, 18 August 2013 22:04
		Re: Question about projection for Google Earth By: Fabzi on Mon, 19 August 2013 00:27
		Re: Question about projection for Google Earth By: David Fanning on Mon, 19 August 2013 05:26
		Re: Question about projection for Google Earth By: timothyja123 on Sun, 01 September 2013 22:15
		Re: Question about projection for Google Earth By: David Fanning on Tue, 03 September 2013 06:03

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