JimC wrote:

> I've got a spherical screen (http://sos.noaa.gov)

I envy you. I need one of those as decoration ;)

> POV-RAY objects on.  The way the system works is it takes a single
> file and projects it onto the sphere, so if you take a Mercator
> projection of the earth and project it, the sphere looks like a
> globe.

As far as I can see SOS uses equidistant cylindrical projection,
not Mercator. Despite the name, I think the "spherical" camera
type in POV-Ray should create this kind output with lat / lon
rectangular coordinates.

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