----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Michelle - Take a look at the Geological Survey pubs on map projections. They should give you a pretty good and "real" way to do the transformations. I did this once for some maps that were projected in Miller's Cylindrical and that I needed to be in an EA projection. I took the equations for the MC and figured out how to calculate the equivalents for the EA projection I finally used (don't remember which one now). HTH. virginia -- \ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California 0 Bellnet: 310.206.7588 Oo Internet: [log in to unmask] http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/~hetrick