[R-sig-Geo] mapproj (fwd)

[Roger Bivand]

I'm resending this posting because of the power outages in Zurich on 
Wednesday, which stopped it getting through to the list, I think.

-- 
Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Breiviksveien 40, N-5045 Bergen,
Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 93 93
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no


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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:03:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>
To: Timothy H. Keitt <tkeitt at mail.utexas.edu>
Cc: r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] mapproj

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:

> I noticed that there is no UTM option for mapproj. Or did I miss
> something? I've been working in UTM zone 14 and it would be convenient
> to have that available. Is there a workaround? (I guess proj on the
> command line.)

Afraid not, doesn't seem to be an evident transverse mercator, which could 
be made to play if all the other arguments were known (and could be passed 
through). proj from system() should do it.

Roger

> 
> THK
> 
> 

-- 
Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Breiviksveien 40, N-5045 Bergen,
Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 93 93
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no