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Physical Map of the World and Flex Projector
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The Map Room made me aware of a beautiful large and free physical map of the world and Flex Projector: "Flex Projector is a freeware, cross-platform application for creating custom world map projections. The intuitive interface allows users to easily modify dozens of popular world map projections—the possibilities range from slight adjustments to making completely new projections." From the Physical map of the world: "This site offers a free map of the world with detailed 3D topography, natural environment colors, and thousands of place name labels. You can view the map interactively online or download it to disk for printing as a wall map. [...] CMYK JPEG (quality level 10), 17,010 x 9,720 pixels, 270 DPI"
We discussed the U.S. free map from the same site 1.5 year ago. See also related stories below for other similar tools.
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Head to The Map Room blog to learn about a new free physical map of the United States. From the Shaded Relief website: "Here you can download a big, detailed, and colorful wall map of the US (minus Alaska and Hawaii). Features include plan oblique relief, cross-blended hypsometric tints, and over 1,000 physical feature labels. Page and web-size versions of the map are available, as are map galleries and an interactive viewer for exploring the terrain up-close."
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The Map Room links to the free NASA Global Map Projector software. From the website: "G.Projector is a Java application which allows you to explore a large collection of global map projections and project an input GIF, JPG or PNG equirectangular map image. Lon-lat gridlines and continental outlines may be drawn, and resulting map images may be saved to disk in GIF, PDF, PNG or PS form." The Map Room also links to an exhaustive gallery of map projections. See related stories below for an online java projection tool.
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Kurt's Weblog links to the Spatial References website, which lists projections information in various formats. In addition to seeing existing EPSG codes, users can submit their own projections. Information for projections are translated in GML, Proj4, ESRI WKT, OGC WKT, USGS and JSON. Comments about the projections can also be shared. See also related stories below.
Physical Map of the World and Flex Projector
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