Adrian wrote:

> Yes, I am not entirely sure that this is the case. My Mathematica implementation
> of the conversion may be faulty (even though I followed mathworld [1]), is there
> a standard way to deal with this? Some UNIX tool or even a built-in feature of
> povray?

There appears to be a unix tool at

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~arcus/mmps/

I think the unprojected latlong format will be the
correct one for map_type 1.

Regarding the WMAP data it seems they already provide it in latlong
format for the "Science on a Sphere" 3d visualization system, so you
might be able to simply use these:

http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/current/sos/7year/

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