[Proj] hammer parameters?

[William Kyngesburye]

On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:03 PM, strebe at aol.com wrote:

> I have been assuming that someone who knows something about proj would speak up. I don’t know anything about proj. However, Snyder’s formulation of Hammer includes a W parameter which controls the amount of bending in the parallels. The standard Hammar uses W = 1/2. Eckert-Greiffendorf uses W=1/4.
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W=0.5 makes sense, as this is the default GRASS uses, so that parameter is probably the same as in Snyder's.

> Perhaps M is the horizontal compression/vertical exaggeration.
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> To achieve Briesemeister under these assumptions, you would set W = 1/2, M = 0.93541 (or perhaps its reciprocal), and the projection center to 45°N.

I tried that already.  Still no good with W=0.5 and M=0.57142857 or M=1.75.

> So, again, though I know nothing about proj, I assume you will need “ob_tran”, which I infer to mean oblique transformation or somesuch.
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> — daan Strebe
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> From: William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com>
> To: PROJ.4 and general Projections Discussions <proj at lists.maptools.org>
> Sent: Wed, Jan 19, 2011 11:47 am
> Subject: Re: [Proj] hammer parameters?
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> So, can anyone tell me what the M and W parameters mean, or at least what values 
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