About Re-projection inside of a view.

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at SWOODBRIDGE.COM
Sun Jan 1 10:53:43 EST 2006


Hi Bobb,

Have you considered making the sub-views of Alaska and Hawaii as iframes 
that you can position, view, project, etc separate from the main view?

-Steve

Blammo wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm sure someone has run into this before, I have need to build a map 
> view with Alaska and Hawaii in the same view as the Continental US.  
> There will also be the need to rescale both Hawaii (bigger) and Alaska 
> (smaller) in the composite view.  I may even need to rotate Alaska 
> slightly based on the base projection (Albers)
> 
> My quandary is that I have quite a bit of data to augment if I should 
> need to go the route of moving/scaling everything for the two States. 
> Has anyone experimented with re-projecting the same dataset into new 
> positions on the fly, what are the performance hits etc. with this type 
> of process, should I even try it, and just reformat the data instead?  
> Maybe there is another option for viewing things side by side like this, 
> any thoughts would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> 
> bobb
> 



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