"The Most Accurate Flat Map of Earth"/"Astrophysicists Design World Map That Looks Like a Vinyl LP"

WeathermanSweden

are some of the headlines in the last few days and a projection of earth looking like this

is presented in many articles all over the internet.

My first question was - can we reproduce this or a similar projection in FT3?

And luckily the answer is: Yes, we can!

Here is my result of projecting the ETOPO2 data in a similar projection.

It seems to be partly the old fashion "Azimuthal Equidistant" projection - but limited to the northern (or southern) part only.

You can add the following lines in your projections.txt file in your FT3 installation folder to get this projection:

Projection 90, "AE Northern and Southern Hemispheres"

Scale 1.0

Description "Azimuthal Equidistant Northern and Southern Hemispheres"

Segment "Azimuthal Equidistant", 90, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0

scale 1, 1

Offset -0.5, 0.0

Effective -180, 90, 180, 0

Rotate 70

EndSegment

Segment "Azimuthal Equidistant", -90, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0

scale 1, 1

Offset 0.5, 0.0

Effective -180, 0, 180, -90

Rotate 110

EndSegment

EndProjection

Greetings,

André

WeathermanSweden

I tested the projection on Nibirum and I think it looks quite interesting...

mike robel

Neat stuff.

[Deleted User]

Just tried it on my Myirandios world, and it worked really well. Thanks, WeathermanSweden.