[Proj] Need help converting Goode to latlon

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Thu Jul 23 04:00:10 EST 2009


David Turover [dturover at student.santarosa.edu] kirjoitti: 
> "+lon_0=-90" drew the South America shapes in the middle of the Pacific
> Ocean. This makes sense since the original projection is based on the
> Greenwich meridian, so this just moved everything west.
> 

Sure, but did the shape get any better? Some projections distort when
they are off the center. If the result is just shifted it is easy to fix that by
for example giving some flase easting (x_0=...).

1) Try to get right shape.
2) Shift and resize it to the right place.

Janne / MNS SUpport



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