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Choosing Mercator Map Projections [message #58370]

Fri, 25 January 2008 08:06

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

There are two different Mercator map projections in IDL. One
produces correct results and the other, uh, doesn't. I strongly
recommend against choosing the latter. I have a call into
ITTVIS to try to understand this better, but in the meantime
I have prepared an article that will help you choose wisely:

http://www.dfanning.com/map_tips/badmercator.html

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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