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Interrupted sinusoidal maps
rtphokie
post Feb 13 2012, 05:29 PM
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Anyone know of interrupted sinusoidal projections of mars or other planets (or the moon)?

The question comes out of a "wouldn't it be cool if" conversation with a teacher looking at some old globes and wondering if they could be turned into moon or Mars globes.



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JohnVV
post Feb 14 2012, 07:31 AM
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the USGS has a few BUT they are in polar projection and in PDF
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/products/Plan...Maps-and-Globes

the perl script on the second link from phil looks good
http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/plan...ke_gores_pl.txt
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