A Continental Map from a Spherical World Map?

[ScotlandTom]

Wow, okay first, thanks for the lesson in different types of map projections and whatnot, Hai-Etlik. I will likely have to reference your post numerous times in the future because I'm sure I'll never remember it all.

Second, I did some fiddling about with the map in Google Earth yesterday and came to the conclusion that my original world map (done in a 2:3 ratio) was not going to be assumed entirely accurate. I am now assuming that the original, unnamed cartographer was not aware of the actual distances across the oceans and seas. He also made a few errors in the island chains closer to the poles. From now on, the totally accurate Mercator map of Eldaron looks like this:



Which then looks like this when I bring it into Google Earth:



(Yes, I've started experimenting with height mapping.) So now my question is, how can I create a rectangular continental map of Auctoria (not the entire world, just the continent) with a viewing angle from over the continent at about 30º-35º latitude? Something more akin to this: