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Subject:        NASA Global Map Projections - G.Projector
Date:   Tues 8 May 2007
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http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/gprojector/

Projecting the oblique spheroid known as Earth onto a 2 dimensional
surface is one of the major issues addressed by Geographers and
Cartographers. Robert B. Schmunk ([log in to unmask]) at the NASA
Goddard Institute for Space Studies at 2880 Broadway New York, NY 10025
USA has created an excellent free resource called G.Projector.

G.Projector is a Java application which allows you to explore a large
collection of global map projections. These may then be projected as an
GIF, JPG or PNG equirectangular map image. Longitude-lattitude gridlines
and continental outlines may be drawn, and the resulting map images may
be saved to disk in GIF, PDF, PNG or PS form.

G.Projector requires that your computer have a Java 1.4 virtual machine,
or better, installed. It is available to download at the NASA GISS site.

Included at the site is a nice list of projections describing their
characteristics.