Michael Bedward ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> The EPSG registry has this note about Robinson's and similar 'atlas'
> projections, which I guess includes Wikel Tripel...
> 
> "Atlas" projection methods not to be included in EPSG db unless
> utilised for a CRS that itself is in use by several parties or used in
> data exchange.
> 
> It is possible to add custom projections to GeoTools but it's a fair
> bit of work and if you only have a small number of maps to do it's
> probably not worth the effort.  An easier solution might be to just
> hand code the lat-lon to Winkel-Tripel transform (the formula looks
> simple enough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_Tripel) and
> "manually" transform your feature coordinates.
> 
> A quick google shows that WT is implemented in the PROJ4 projection
> library. One Java wrapper for this is here...
> http://www.jhlabs.com/java/maps/proj/
> 
> If you're ambitious and you do want to try adding the projection there
> are some notes here:
> http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/GEOTDOC/How+to+add+new+projections

Which I just followed one more time:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-2998

Unfortunately I could not commit, this projection breaks an assumption
in the code that held until today: every map projection is invertible.
Unfortunately the Winkel Tripel one does not have a simple inversion
formula and I see proj and others just handle the fact that not all
projections can be inverted.
So, some discussion on gt-devel is necessary

Cheers
Andrea


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