Map Projection with Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg40284] Map Projection with Mathematica
- From: "Thiery Balser" <thiery.balser at gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 05:20:46 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, First of all my English quite bad, so I'm sorry for any possible mistakes. I'm wondering whether there's a smart way to do map projections with mathematica. To be more precise: I want sort of a globe (including for instance continents) apply a map to this and then see the image under the transformation / projection. So my problems are basically the following: 1)How can I get a globe into Mathematica? Meaning a bunch of functions that sort of 'draw' a globe? Is there any predefined thing? So that the only thing I'd have to do is to compose the functions 'drawing the globe' with my projective map. I know that mathematica comes along with the package `WorldPlot. So is there anyway to access the data they're using there? They even got some different projections options but the point is that I want to do in on my own. Has anyone got experience in this? Any hints, links or whatsoever highly appreciated, Thiery