CTAN package update: pst-geo

Date: July 23, 2008 9:07:13 AM CEST

The package here has been updated at tug.ctan.org and will soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ...................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pst-geo Author's name: Herbert Voß Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-geo Summary description: pst-geo is a PSTricks related package for drawing two and three dimensional geographical objects License type: lppl Announcement text:

This new version of pst-map3d has some new interesting features for drawing three dimensional views of the earth, like tectonic fields, magnetic boundaries, and epicenters of earthquakes

This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-geo . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pst-geo (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

pst-geo – Geographical Projections

The package offers a set of PSTricks related packages for various cartographic projections of the terrestrial sphere. The package pst-map2d provides conventional projections such as Mercator, Lambert, cylindrical, etc.

The package pst-map3d treats representation in three dimensions of the terrestrial sphere. Packages pst-map2dII and pst-map3dII allow use of the CIA World DataBank II. Various parameters of the packages allow for choice of the level of the detail and the layouts possible (cities, borders, rivers etc).

Substantial data files are provided, in an (internally) compressed format. Decompression happens on-the-fly as a document using the data is displayed, printed or converted to PDF format. A Perl script is provided for the user to do the decompression, if the need should arise.

Package	pst-geo
Version	0.07
Maintainer	Manuel Luque Giuseppe Matarazzo Herbert Voß

CTAN package update: pst-geo

pst-geo – Geographical Projections

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