Andrew Straw wrote:
> Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>   
>> Dr. Phillip M. Feldman wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Basemap offers many projections, but is missing two of the most useful ones:
>>>
>>> - For satellite applications, it would be helpful to have a "camera"
>>> projection, i.e., a projection that shows the Earth as viewed from a
>>> specified point in space.  This would be a generalization of the current
>>> geostationary projection.
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>> Philip:  Don't think the proj4 lib supports this.
>>   
>>     
> I think it's already in there -- see nsper, for near sided perspective.
>
> -Andrew
>
>   
Hello Andrew-

It does sound as thought nsper is exactly what I need, but when I try to 
use it, I get the following error message:

ValueError: 'nsper' is an unsupported projection.
The supported projections are:

 aeqd             Azimuthal Equidistant
 poly             Polyconic
 gnom             Gnomonic
 moll             Mollweide
 tmerc            Transverse Mercator
 nplaea           North-Polar Lambert Azimuthal
 gall             Gall Stereographic Cylindrical
 mill             Miller Cylindrical
 merc             Mercator
 stere            Stereographic
 npstere          North-Polar Stereographic
 geos             Geostationary
 vandg            van der Grinten
 laea             Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
 mbtfpq           McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic
 sinu             Sinusoidal
 spstere          South-Polar Stereographic
 lcc              Lambert Conformal
 npaeqd           North-Polar Azimuthal Equidistant
 eqdc             Equidistant Conic
 cyl              Cylindrical Equidistant
 omerc            Oblique Mercator
 aea              Albers Equal Area
 spaeqd           South-Polar Azimuthal Equidistant
 ortho            Orthographic
 cass             Cassini-Soldner
 splaea           South-Polar Lambert Azimuthal
 robin            Robinson

Phillip     

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