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From: Cousin Ricky
Subject: Map Projections
Date: 12 Dec 2011 23:30:01
Message: <web.4ee6d1d976a9b3b085de7b680@news.povray.org>

I ran across this while trying to relearn how to plot star charts:

   http://xkcd.com/977/

Conspicuously absent are any projections with south up. Come on, Aussies and
Uruguayans, rise up!

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From: Paul Fuller
Subject: Re: Map Projections
Date: 12 Dec 2011 23:59:30
Message: <4ee6dbb2@news.povray.org>

On 13/12/2011 3:17 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> I ran across this while trying to relearn how to plot star charts:
>
>     http://xkcd.com/977/
>
> Conspicuously absent are any projections with south up. Come on, Aussies and
> Uruguayans, rise up!
>
>

We in the anitpodes simply run our browsers with :picv -1 and everything 
looks fine.  I'm not sure where the option is in the GUI since Firefox 8.

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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Map Projections
Date: 13 Dec 2011 07:42:57
Message: <4ee74851@news.povray.org>

Cousin Ricky <rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
> Conspicuously absent are any projections with south up.

  That's not a projection type.

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                                                          - Warp

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