[Proj] Natural Earth projection

[Gerald I. Evenden]

Perhaps a knee jerk reaction on my part because terms like "natural," like
"organic," become overused these days. As you describe it, "Natural
Earth's" projection would be more appropriate but this leaves the
projection without a direct designation. However, "natural" as a name has a
lot of nonsense baggage.

An issue that I do not remember seeing discussed with the projection is its
property of being equal area. I feel that for general thematic mapping it
is far more important for a map to be equal area to help the viewer have a
better "feel" of the information presented.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Mikael Rittri <Mikael.Rittri at carmenta.com>wrote:

> Hello Gerald. Nice to hear from you again.
>
> I agree that NE looks very much like Robinson or Winkel triple.
>
> However, I think you read the name out of context.
> It refers to (alludes to?) the free dataset Natural Earth,
> see http://www.naturalearthdata.com
>
> Regards,
>
> Mikael Rittri
> Carmenta
> Sweden
> http://www.carmenta.com
>
> 4 mar 2012 kl. 03:02 skrev "Gerald I. Evenden" <geraldi.evenden at gmail.com
> >:
>
> My interest in projections has waned and I only get this email list
> because I am too lazy to cut it off.  However this projection caught my eye
> for a couple of reasons: 1) it is only a slight and insignificant rehash of
> existing projections but, more importantly, 2) the presumptuousness of
> calling it the "Natural Earth." Oh please!!
>
> Alas.
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Norman Vine < <nhv at cape.com>nhv at cape.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 24, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Bernhard Jenny wrote:
>>
>> I would like to suggest the inclusion of the Natural Earth projection in
>> PROJ.4. Natural Earth is a new projection for small-scale world maps. Here
>> is more information on the projection:
>>  <http://www.shadedrelief.com/NE_proj/>
>> http://www.shadedrelief.com/NE_proj/
>>
>> This recent article in Cartography and Geographic Information Science
>> describes the development of the projection and its equations:
>> <http://cartography.oregonstate.edu/pdf/2011_Savric_etal_PolynomialNaturalEarth.pdf>
>> http://cartography.oregonstate.edu/pdf/2011_Savric_etal_PolynomialNaturalEarth.pdf
>>
>> Here is C code ready to be included in PROJ.4:
>>  <http://www.shadedrelief.com/NE_proj/natural_earth_proj.zip>
>> http://www.shadedrelief.com/NE_proj/natural_earth_proj.zip
>>
>> I suggest the following entry for pj_list.h:
>> PROJ_HEAD(natearth, "Natural Earth")
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bernie
>>
>> Bernhard Jenny
>> Assistant Professor
>> Cartography and Geovisualization
>> Oregon State University
>> <jennyb at geo.oregonstate.edu>jennyb at geo.oregonstate.edu
>>  <http://cartography.oregonstate.edu/>http://cartography.oregonstate.edu/
>>
>>
>> Bernie
>>
>> Frank has added this projection see
>>  <http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/changeset/2182>
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/changeset/2182
>>
>> Perhaps you could add some documentation to
>> <http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/wiki/ProjList>
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/wiki/ProjList
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Norman
>>
>>
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