Polyhedral Globe

[nikezzz]

Hey daan,

is there a way to do Polyhedral Globes in Geocart - especially a Equal-area Truncated Icosahedron map?
I have found them on this website http://www.csiss.org/map-projections/ and the Truncated Icosahedron on http://www.csiss.org/map-projections/Po ... hedron.pdf

I need to reproject a plane chart projection to this Truncated Icosahedron map - so is there a way to do this in Geocart or could this projection be added to Geocart?

Best regards and thanks in advance
nikezzz

[daan]

Hello nikezzz, and welcome to the forums.

Unfortunately Geocart does not have this projection. It has the triangular form of Snyder’s equal-area polyhedral development, but not the hexagonal or pentagonal forms. I should add it, given that I co-authored a paper representing a generalization of the projection!

Sorry for the missing projection. Yours was the first request.
— daan

[nikezzz]

Hey cool perfect so how long will it take you to add this projection to Geocart?

Sorry for the missing projection. Yours was the first request.

No Problem - Geocart is such a great program and has so many projections and I wouldn't know how I could get my work done without it.

[daan]

Hello Nikezzz. Thanks for the kind words.

I wouldn’t hold my breath for the projection to appear in an update. I’ll definitely add it to the list, but I can’t predict a time.

Hopefully some of the other projections will tide you over until then.


Best,
— daan