Well, I don't really have one, I have access to one at a local museum.  I'll try
the "spherical" camera type.    Thanks!

Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> 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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