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Re: Can world maps be centered on varying coordinates
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"Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:56:56 -0600
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Subject: Re: [MAPS-L] Can world maps be centered on varying coordinates
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:55:22 -0600
From: Robert T Wyatt <[log in to unmask]>
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Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee wrote:
> (W 90--E 90/N 90--S 90)

To me, the issue is that W 90 is not congruent to E 90, it would be E
270, which isn't used and which I expect to be the reason W 90 was used
for both margins.

Unfortunately I don't have a better proposal but I have been intrigued
by the responses.


Robert T Wyatt

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