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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m just beginning to prototype the creation of a web site for displaying data on a map interface. OpenLayers is already delivering a lot of functionality to me with just a few lines of (my) code. One immediate concern: my collaborators
really need their data to be presented on large-scale polar stereographic maps. A quick google brings up
<a href="http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/242-polar-maps-and-projections-part-1-overview">
http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/242-polar-maps-and-projections-part-1-overview</a> and
<a href="http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/243-polar-maps-and-projections-part-2-implementation">
http://www.geowebguru.com/articles/243-polar-maps-and-projections-part-2-implementation</a> and several other discussions, all 3-5 years old. I’m trying to get a quick idea of the current state of the technology for doing this for full hemispheres. Thanks
for any info or ideas.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Steve<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:black">-</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Steve Chall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> Senior Research Software Developer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> Phone: 919-681-9639<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> Email:
<a href="mailto:stevec@renci.org"><span style="color:blue">stevec@renci.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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