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Equations for Mercator projections?
From: Geoff Kuenning
Date: 2003 Apr 14, 13:40 -0700
From: Geoff Kuenning
Date: 2003 Apr 14, 13:40 -0700
I have some students who need to be able to convert lat/long into x/y
coordinates on a Mercator projection. They know the lat/long of the
upper-left corner and the scale of the map. They haven't had any
success finding equations on the Web. Does anybody have any pointers?
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Geoff Kuenning geoff@cs.hmc.edu http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/
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