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    Quote Originally Posted by Lukc View Post
    It's luvli! Dangit. What software do you use to get these transformations of territory to different projections? I wants it!
    I used Geogebra to work out the standard parallels I needed to fit the shape of the lamp shade, QuantumGIS to prepare and project the data, and a custom program in Ruby to make the graticule (though QGIS could have done that as well)

    And obviously I used Inkscape as I always do for the graphics.

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    QuantumGIS. Gotcha. More stuff to learn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lukc View Post
    QuantumGIS. Gotcha. More stuff to learn.
    There are a few other desktop other GISes to try playing with: GRASS, uDig, OpenJUMP, gvSIG. GRASS probably isn't what you want, but I've heard uDig and OpenJUMP are fairly approachable. Or if you are made of money, there's ArcGIS; even the absolute bottom of the line license makes Photoshop look inexpensive.

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    Printing has been problematic. I've tried 6 different print shops. The first two would have done it for a reasonable price, but both of them were having problems with their wide format printers. The next two both wanted in the vicinity of 7 times what the first to would have charged, and the last two didn't have wide format printers at all.

    However, I have printed it out in sections on my own printer and have glued them together to get a prototype.

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    Have you tried online photography places like Shutterfly? I know they make poster sized prints, not sure if the paper they use is thin enough to let the light shine through properly though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anstett View Post
    Have you tried online photography places like Shutterfly? I know they make poster sized prints, not sure if the paper they use is thin enough to let the light shine through properly though.

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    I have a local photo place that does large prints and they are even more expensive still. Over 100 CAD for the size I need. It's not urgent so I'll just wait for one of the first two.

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    This has turned out so well. I used to work at a family owned art store. During our free time, we'd work on projects like this (lamp-shades, hand-made sketchbooks, etc.) and the store would sell them. Can't wait to see the final product.

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