I am sorry, but that makes no sense. If you scale down the top or bottom part of a Mercator projected map, it looses the one thing it's useful for in nautical apps, namely that a compass course is depicted as a straight line in any direction...
Barend On 04-02-13 09:49, "feverzsj" <[email protected]> wrote: >hi, b.j.kobben >>> Well, if it's shrinking towards the poles, it basically is not a >>>Mercator >>> projection (at least not the traditional normal Mercator where the >>> cylinder is wrapped around the Equator)... > >It shrinks in a way that the whole canvas is scaled down. Considering the >Mercator is always recommended for nautical application, it should be >Mercator projection with some post process. > >>> Which "nautical chart viewer" did you see this in...? > >For example, Transas's ECDIS demo, DEMO_ECDIS_2519.iso : >http://www.transas.com/support/ecdis_demo/ > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Mercator-projection-that-shrinks-towar >d-pole-tp5031876p5031902.html >Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >_______________________________________________ >Qgis-user mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
