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Subject: Re: Map Gore Creating Software
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:31:16 -0600
From: Nat Case <[log in to unmask]>
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To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Well, there's no reason you couldn't take non-geographic artwork, match
it up to a reference (rectangular projection, presumably), and then
reproject it. In theory you could do this within
Illustrator+MaPublisher, but from what I can tell, that combination does
not do interrupted projections especially well. I've been looking at
similar issues in creating interrupted Goode's homolosine maps in
Illustrator... MaPublisher will import shape files with a .prj file
written with interruptions, but anything reprojected into that Map View
goes to the uninterrupted version of the projection.
You /could/ export from MaPublisher Illustrator as a georeferenced
dataset, and then reproject in some GIS software that handles
interrupted projections (ArcGIS, for example), the re-export from there,
either directly to AI, or back as shape files with the appropriate .prj
file attached.
Cool idea!
You might also try posting this question on Carto-talk if you haven't
already.
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Nat Case, Head of Production
*HEDBERG MAPS, INC.*
Creative Cartographic and Marketing Solutions
hedbergmaps.com <http://www.hedbergmaps.com>
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On 3/1/12 8:05 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW
Milwaukee wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Map Gore Creating Software
> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:35:01 -0600
> From: John M Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> A patron is looking for software that would create interrupted
> sinusoidal gores from a flat piece of art work (not necessarily a map)
> that can be attached to a large sphere. Does anybody know of such a
> thing in the public domain?
>
> Wednesday is too early in the week for an off the wall request.
>
> Thank you for any help you can provide.
>
> John
>
> John M. Anderson
>
> Map Librarian and Director
>
> Cartographic Information Center
>
> Department of Geography & Anthropology
>
> LSU
>
> Baton Rouge, LA 70803
>
> (225) 578-6247
>
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