Pacific centred Maps

[Steve King]

G'day

 

    In March this year Tim Smith asked a question about creating a map centred on the Pacific.  I now find that I have to do the same thing.  I read the thread in the archive but there did not seem to be any conclusion as to whether this was possible or not.  I have tried changing the projection clauses of a few of the world projections to alter the "Origin longitude" (I assume this has the effect of moving the central meridian).  This only seemed to have the effect of changing the on screen coordinates but the map was still split in the same place.  I have to complete a vector interpretation which will cross the split and provide the result for use in ARC GIS.  If I just extend vectors to draw them into the space with longitude > 180 will this cause me problems when I translate the resulting files?  I am not an ARC user but the client showed me it is a simple matter to change the central meridian and have the map centred where you want.  Is there any way to do this in Mapinfo or not?

 

Cheers

 

Steve King

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[Tony Pilkington]

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