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    Post Equidistant Conic Graticule Generator Script

    I've written a little Ruby program to generate a graticule for the equidistant conic projection. This projection works reasonably well (For fantasy map making purposes) for medium scale maps, particularly in middle latitudes. Countries to mid sized continents.

    http://draconic.ca/eqd-conic.rb

    It requires Ruby 1.9 to run and includes instructions in comments at the top of the file. It has a command line interface and produces SVG output you can use in Inkscape or other vector graphics editors.

    A good rule of thumb is to pick standard parallels 1/6 of the way in from the top and bottom of your map.
    Last edited by Hai-Etlik; 12-09-2011 at 12:31 AM.

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