[OSGeo-Discuss] how to produce a Peirce quincuncial map?
As far as I know PROJ4 cannot apply the Peirce quincuncial projection. Does anybody know what libraries/softwares can manage it? giovanni ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how to produce a Peirce quincuncial map?
On 08/13/2012 05:29 AM, G. Allegri wrote: As far as I know PROJ4 cannot apply the Peirce quincuncial projection. Does anybody know what libraries/softwares can manage it? giovanni I've seen it done in GIMP with a plugin, not exactly manageable data but the right output. Other than that there was one proprietary tool I saw once that specialized in oddball projections. Enjoy, Alex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how to produce a Peirce quincuncial map?
Thanks Alex. I will investigate more. It's an odd projection but it has interesting features. Maybe I will try to implement it in proj4... giovanni Sent from Nexus Il giorno 13/ago/2012 18:46, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com ha scritto: On 08/13/2012 05:29 AM, G. Allegri wrote: As far as I know PROJ4 cannot apply the Peirce quincuncial projection. Does anybody know what libraries/softwares can manage it? giovanni I've seen it done in GIMP with a plugin, not exactly manageable data but the right output. Other than that there was one proprietary tool I saw once that specialized in oddball projections. Enjoy, Alex ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how to produce a Peirce quincuncial map?
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:20 PM, G. Allegri gioha...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Alex. I will investigate more. It's an odd projection but it has interesting features. Maybe I will try to implement it in proj4... Peirce's 1879 paper is on jstor! http://www.jstor.org/stable/2369491 The tables must have taken days of calculation... Barry ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
