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    Did you have something like this in mind?

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    After some searching, I found a program which can do this. It is called Geocart 3. You can load any map image you have, as long as it is in equirectangular format, and convert it to other projections, including oblique ones with the top (or "pole") anywhere you want.

    The Demo version of the program inserts "Demo" watermarks into the exported map images, but otherwise appears to be fully functional.

    Good luck with your tilted Earth (which is what I believe you are trying to create). I love alternate, tilted Earths myself and might create a few myself. A nice exercise in climatology!
    Last edited by Laskaris; 06-03-2012 at 04:56 PM.

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    Laskaris! You legend! Thanks heaps for pointing that software out to me, it's a huge help. I'm actually trying to set up a world for one of my novels I'm currently writing. However, in as much as I enjoy a good high fantasy romp every now and then, I have a distaste for how much belief has to be suspended in my own fiction. So when I write I try to remain as realistic as possible. And on a tilted earth, the sahara better not still be there when africa is sitting on the arctic circle. Thanks again for you help. And thanks to everyone for their imput! I'll be sure to send you guys copies of my finished work when I get the chance. And if I knew how, I'd send you some rep.

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