Thanks for your response. I'm getting different information from different
people (THANK YOU ALL), and I will summarize my findings next week...
Gilles
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacques Paris [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 8:22 AM
> To: Bacon, Gilles (IBK-NY); [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: MI Adding projections
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> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bacon, Gilles(IBK-NY)
> Sent: November 17, 1999 8:26 PM
> Subject: MI Adding projections
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> I'm trying to add projections which were not included with MapInfo:
>
> Lambert's Equal Area (for Continental U.S., not polar Azimuthal)
> Azimuthal Equidistant (for Europe, not polar)
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Gilles Bacon
> Merrill Lynch Graphics
>
> ================
>
> I have had the same challenge with Lambert's Equal Area for the Baltic
> region when trying to exploit the data of the GRIDA center. Mats Elfström
> who had alkready converted some sets for MapInfo had to use a projection
> that approximated the original one but that does not give a particularly
> good fit with the reality in the outlying areas.
>
> It is something that is coded in MapInfo, and as long as they do not
> inlude
> a new "equation" in the program, we will be unable to use it. May be some
> external programs could make the conversion on the fly? I gave up before
> finding anything interesting.
>
> Would like to know if there is a solution.
>
> Jacques Paris
>
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