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    Can I ask how you set that up? Using that sort of projection would solve some serious headaches I'm having with a world map at the moment.
    It looks like a faked Azimuthal Equidistant projection, or maybe some other azimuthal projection. The polar insets give away the fakeing most clearly if you look really carefully, but it is a clever bit of fakery for a purely decorative map.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hai-Etlik View Post
    It looks like a faked Azimuthal Equidistant projection, or maybe some other azimuthal projection. The polar insets give away the fakeing most clearly if you look really carefully, but it is a clever bit of fakery for a purely decorative map.
    Ah, I'm all about fakery - "clever" I'll have to work on.

    Thanks for the tip on projections. I think I'm on the right trail now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thomryng View Post
    Ah, I'm all about fakery - "clever" I'll have to work on.

    Thanks for the tip on projections. I think I'm on the right trail now.
    I'd suggest Stereographic over Equidistant Azimuthal, just do a search for 'Wulff Net' and you should find plenty of templates you can use for the graticule (just be careful to check the license, a public domain example shouldn't be too much work to find.)

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