[GRASS-user] The world from space

[Matthew Perry]

On 11/6/07, Jarle Pedersen <mybigb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Probably an easy task, but I'm having some trouble figuring out how to make
> a similar result as what can be seen in ArcGIS' projection
> "The_World_From_Space". I'll need to be able to reproduce
> that in GRASS in order to keep my project entirely
> open-source based.

You could try an orthographic projection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_projection_(cartography)

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Matthew T. Perry
http://www.perrygeo.net