[OSGeo-Discuss] how to produce a Peirce quincuncial map?

Barry Rowlingson b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
Mon Aug 13 13:33:47 PDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:20 PM, G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Alex.
> I will investigate more. It's an odd projection but it has interesting
> features. Maybe I will try to implement it in proj4...

Peirce's 1879 paper is on jstor!

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2369491

The tables must have taken days of calculation...

Barry



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