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NASA's Global Map Projector

posted by Satri on Wednesday March 21, @12:10PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the project-yourself-on-the-map dept.
Geocoding NASA Software
The Map Room links to the free NASA Global Map Projector software. From the website: "G.Projector is a Java application which allows you to explore a large collection of global map projections and project an input GIF, JPG or PNG equirectangular map image. Lon-lat gridlines and continental outlines may be drawn, and resulting map images may be saved to disk in GIF, PDF, PNG or PS form." The Map Room also links to an exhaustive gallery of map projections. See related stories below for an online java projection tool.

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Map Projections for All [+]
The Cartography blog and The Map Room blog both link to a huge collection of map projections. From the site: "The ultimate goal of this ‘Map Projection Catalog’ is to present on-line, as complete a collection as possible, historical published map projections. Currently, there are 317 educational-quality Map Projection Graphics here."
Java Applet for Map Projections 1 comment [+]
Henry wrote to me: "Henry Bottomley's Java applet for world map projections allows a quick real-time view of the distorting effects of 15 different projections as well as altering the center and orientation of the map. It has just been extended to do the same for the Moon, Mars and even Jupiter." The java code is also available on the website.
Application Domains: Physical Map of the World and Flex Projector [+]
The Map Room made me aware of a beautiful large and free physical map of the world and Flex Projector: "Flex Projector is a freeware, cross-platform application for creating custom world map projections. The intuitive interface allows users to easily modify dozens of popular world map projections—the possibilities range from slight adjustments to making completely new projections." From the Physical map of the world: "This site offers a free map of the world with detailed 3D topography, natural environment colors, and thousands of place name labels. You can view the map interactively online or download it to disk for printing as a wall map. [...] CMYK JPEG (quality level 10), 17,010 x 9,720 pixels, 270 DPI" We discussed the U.S. free map from the same site 1.5 year ago. See also related stories below for other similar tools.
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  • Great program!

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    by PB (768) on Thursday March 22, @05:01AM (#1331)
    ( http://gis.umcs.lublin.pl/ )
    Thanks for the link, it's a great program, ideal for educational purposes. Though it could have a broader choice of projections and/or a possibility to add one's own (I'm writing it just as I tried it out, I didn't explore it thoroughly, so forgive me if it does).

    • Re:Great program!

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      by Anonymous Voxel on Thursday April 05, @02:06AM (#1374)
      As of version 1.0.1, released on April 4, it includes 73 projections.
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