[Wikipedia-l] Data for map projections

Neil Harris usenet at tonal.clara.co.uk
Thu Aug 8 06:56:24 UTC 2002


Pierre Abbat wrote:

>I'd like to make some examples of map projections. Does anyone know where I 
>can get numerical data that show the outlines of the continents?
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Try http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/

It's going to be a huge dataset, though, and contains overwhelmingly 
more detail than you need.

This looks interesting, too: http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/ima.html

Neil





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