Questions tagged [projection]
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Projecting rectangular stereography centred on 42°N, 10°E
I am reposting from GIS Stack Exchange as here might also be someone who might help:
I have a precipitation GRIB2 file obtained at EUMETSAT H-SAF I am able to decode it to ascii but the software I am ...
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What is the maximum value of Easting in UTM coordinates?
What is the maximum value of Easting in UTM coordinates?
In many websites I found the answer of maximum value is about 834000 meters, but if you convert some of these coordinates below the value will ...
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Distortion-free map of all continents [closed]
I've been searching for a map that shows all continents in their actual size that is free of projection distortion, to no avail. Every map I found was of a particular projection type and as such ...
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Inconsistency between topographic survey and Google Earth
For a piece of land in Peru (Zone 18K), I was provided the following UTM coordinates (showing just one): 140800 E 8176337 N. However, when I look up the site on Google Earth, while the N coordinate is ...
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Is there a map that displays every country at its correct relative size?
I know that the standard Mercator projection is completely wrong when it comes to the relative sizes of countries (Greenland appears relatively much larger than in reality, for example). AFAIK they do ...
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Where to find an accurate Mercator Projection world image?
I'm sorry if this doesn't fit "Earth Science" too well. No idea where else to ask this!
Can anyone help me find an accurate world map in Mercator Projection?
It doesn't need political borders or too ...
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Iowa State GOES Visible Data - misaligned EPSG:4326
The WMS server of Iowa State is serving data for the GOES-13 satellite in the visible channel. As best as I can tell, the data is misaligned with other data sources. For example, in a WMS client, ...
