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  Re: kind of Mercator  
From: clipka
Date: 19 Dec 2011 19:43:03
Message: <4eefda17$1@news.povray.org>
Am 19.12.2011 21:53, schrieb Le_Forgeron:
> Using a mercator projection (100% spherical projection), but not as
> usual (instead of a point on equator for center, using the south pole,
> and forget about Greenwich meridian, off by 60°)

FYI, the projection you used is not a transverse Mercator, but Cassini 
(aka transverse equirectangular projection). Mercator would project your 
"outer equator" into infinity, so it would not be visible on the map; 
likewise, eastern Africa would not be that "squished", but rather just 
out of proportion in size.


BTW, you seem to have some strange phenomenon in the waters of the Bahamas.


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