[mapserver-users] project onto a globe?

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

I think you mean reproject to orthographic projection...  I don't know
if proj.4 supports it but if it does then you most likely will be able
to do it.

-Perry N.

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 11:42, Tom Hodder wrote:
> 
> >
> > Tom -
> >
> > I don't think I understand the question.  Monitors and printers
> > are flat (relatively) surfaces - so most map projections project
> > a portion (or all) of the earth onto a flat surface.  What
> > exactly are you trying to do?
> >
> > 	- Ed
> > >
> 
> sorry, i meant a 2d representation of a globe.
> 
> I have it setup where its possible to zoom out to a world basemap, so I
> showed it
> to a marketing bod, it looks similar to this;
> http://mapserver.socialchange.net.au/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=..%2Fmaps%2Fworld%2
> Fworld.map&layer=land_raster&zoomsize=2
> (but this is not my version, as I'm developing it on an internal server)
> 
> and they said can make it so that the complete map is projected onto a 2d
> globe
> centered about a given point, because that looks nicer. so i said I will see
> what
> I can do.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tom H
>