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Re: twisted map
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Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:44:28 GMT
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> > > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Christopher Tracey writes:
> > > For general information on transverse projections, see this:
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> > > http://www.mapthematics.com/Essentials/Essentials.html
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> > great site-- really informative both for the newbie and 'enthusist'
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> I constantly learn more and more about cartography and surveying.
> It's fun--
~Such fun!
For I live upon the oblate spheroid of Terra. (The geoid of Earth)
[I learned something new today!]
Oh, and the stuff about the rhumb line, or, loxodrome has some
applications in stellar cartography and the continuum of space.
=P !¡!neat!¡!
I don’t know if anyone else does this…but… I actually read any
post written by Lindsay simply because the probability that I'll find
something of interest is almost completely assured.
Happily,
--==RïçhårÐ==--
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| (...) For hemispheric mapping, conic projections were generally used. Lambert can be applied cylindrically, though: (URL) Which gives the map severe t/b end compression. I'm not sure, again, what the maths are that govern the original map Suz put (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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