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Subject: Re: map projections
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Date: 13 Oct 90 07:51:45 GMT
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If you want the defacto standards for map projections look up the U.S.
Geological Survey.  They have several publications on map projections,
one called "Map Projections - A Working Manual (Paper 1395)" and there
is another called something like 'The Atlas of Map Projections'.  I have
the first publication and it contains many formulas and specs.  The
second publication is basically what it says and contains many many
projections.  Check with the USGS (I'm sure you can find a telephone
number or an order number, after all it is the government) or try a
University library.  My University has a government publications area that
contains all the USGS publications, but I doubt that your typical public
library would have the books.  Anyway, I'v found all the information I
need about the projections for the USGS, now as to display, this is of
course a much more interesting problem . . .

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