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Re: Cylindrical map projection screwed up? [message #13524 is a reply to message #13518]

Fri, 13 November 1998 00:00

davidf
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Jonathan Joseph (jj@scorpio.tn.cornell.edu) writes:

> I've been doing some stuff using cylindrical map
> projections using set_map. So, darn it, I expect
> my lines of longitude to be vertical, and my lines
> of latitude to be horizontal in the image.
>
> But, when I set the LIMIT keyword to just look
> at a small portion of the globe, this is not
> the case. In fact, I only get a true cylidrical
> projection if the min and max latitude have the
> same magnitude, ie. -30 to 30 degrees.
>
> Is this a bug? or am I missing something obvious.

Are you missing the ISOTROPIC keyword?

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Cylindrical map projection screwed up? By: Jonathan Joseph on Fri, 13 November 1998 00:00
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		Re: Cylindrical map projection screwed up? By: Liam Gumley on Fri, 13 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Cylindrical map projection screwed up? By: davidf on Fri, 13 November 1998 00:00

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