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A

accuracy of map computations

Adams, Oscar Sherman

Airy Minimum Error Azimuthal projection

Aitoff projection <1> <2>

Albers Equal-Area Conic projection

Albers, Heinrich Christian

American Geographical Society

American Polyconic projection

angles

converting units <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6> <7>

normalizing range <1> <2>

Apianus II projection

ASCII file

converting delimiters to NaNs

auxiliary sphere

calculating radius

axes, Cartesian See Cartesian axes

axes, map See map axes

axesm <1> <2>

azimuth

between track waypoints

calculating <1> <2>

finding cross fix position

B

Babinet projection

Balthasart Cylindrical projection <1> <2>

Bartholomew, John

bearing See azimuth

Behrmann Cylindrical projection <1> <2> <3>

Behrmann, Walter

Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira

Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira projection <1> <2>

Bonne projection

Bonne, Rigobert

Bordone Oval projection

Braun Perspective Cylindrical projection <1> <2> <3>

Breusing Harmonic Mean projection

Breusing, F. A. Arthur

Briesemeister projection <1> <2>

Briesemeister, William

BSAM projection

C

Cartesian axes, displaying

Cassini Cylindrical projection

Cassini de Thury, César François

Cassini projection

Central Cylindrical projection <1> <2>

Central projection

Click-and-Drag property editor

Collignon projection

Collignon, Édouard

colormap menu in figure window

colormaps

digital elevation map <1> <2>

regular matrix map

shaded relief map

comet3m <1> <2>

cometm <1> <2>

Conic projection

Conical Orthomorphic projection

contor3m <1> <2>

contorm <1> <2>

contour map

creating <1> <2> <3>

conversion

angle units <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6> <7>

ASCII file delimiters

coordinate types <1> <2> <3>

distance to string

distance units <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

dms to matrix elements

ellipsoid parameters <1> <2> <3> <4> <5>

geographic coordinates to matrix coordinates

great circles to small circles

hms to matrix elements

latitude types <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <11> <12>

matrix coordinates to geographic coordinates

matrix elements to dms

matrix elements to hms

time units <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6> <7>

coordinate system transforming

coordinates

converting from geographic to matrix

converting from matrix to geographic

converting types <1> <2> <3>

selecting with mouse

Craster Parabolic projection

Craster, John Evelyn Edmund

cross fix positions

current point from map axes

D

de l'Isle, Nicolas

Deetz, Charles H.

demcmap <1> <2>

Die Rechteckige Plattkarte

Digital Chart of the World (DCW)

reading digital elevation data

reading gazette

reading headers

reading selected data

digital elevation map, colormap

displaying

light objects <1> <2>

lighted surfaces <1> <2>

lines <1> <2> <3> <4>

patches <1> <2> <3> <4> <5>

surfaces <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

text <1> <2> <3>

distance

converting to string

converting units <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

See also surface distance

E

Earth See almanac

Eckert I projection

Eckert II projection

Eckert III projection

Eckert IV projection

Eckert V projection <1> <2>

Eckert VI projection

Eckert, Max <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

Edwards, Trystan

Egyptians <1> <2> <3>

elevation map See digital elevation map

ellipsoid

approximating planetary geoid See almanac

radius of curvature

ellipsoid parameters

conversion <1> <2> <3> <4>

Elliptical projection

Equal-Area Cylindrical projection <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

Equidistant Azimuthal projection <1> <2> <3> <4>

Equidistant Conic projection

Equidistant Cylindrical projection <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

Equirectangular projection <1> <2>

Etzlaub, Erhard

external data

DCW data <1> <2>

Fifth Fundamental Catalog of Stars

TIGER ArcInfo files

TIGER FIPS name files

TIGER MIF files

TIGER/Line data

USGS DEM data <1> <2>

USGS DEM filenames

F

Fifth Fundamental Catalog of Stars

fill3m <1> <2>

fillm <1> <2>

fixing See navigational fixing

Flat-Polar Quartic projection

Fournier II projection

Fournier projection <1> <2>

Fournier, Georges

G

Gall Isographic projection <1> <2>

Gall Orthographic projection <1> <2>

Gall projection

Gall Stereographic projection <1> <2>

Gall, James <1> <2>

gcm

general matrix map

projecting <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

projecting shaded relief

geographic data structure

creating input mlayers

extracting data

interacting with objects

geographic points

standard deviation

standard distance

geoid vector

planets See almanac

Gnomic projection

Gnomonic projection

Goode Homolosine projection <1> <2>

great circle track

calculating from one point

calculating from two points

great circles

converting to small circles

intersection with small circles

Great Soviet World Atlas

Guide property editor

H

Hammer projection <1> <2> <3>

Hammer-Aitoff projection

handlem <1> <2>

Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph

Hatano Asymmetrical Equal-Area projection

Hatano, Masataka

hidem <1> <2>

histogram

equirectangular

Homolographic projection

Homolosine projection

Hondius, Jodocus

I

interpolation

latitude and longitude

latitude given longitude

longitude given latitude

intersection

great circles and small circles

J

Jupiter See almanac

K

Kavraisky V projection

Kavraisky VI projection

Kavraisky, V. V. <1> <2>

L

La Carte Parallélogrammatique

Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection

Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection <1> <2>

Lambert Conformal Conic projection

Lambert Equal-Area Azimuthal projection

Lambert Equal-Area Conic projection

Lambert Equal-Area Cylindrical projection <1> <2> <3>

Lambert, Johann Heinrich <1> <2> <3> <4>

latitude and longitude

converting latitude types <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <11> <12>

finding corresponding time zone

finding for map entries

interpolation <1> <2> <3>

limits of regular matrix map <1> <2>

lightm <1> <2>

limitm <1> <2>

line objects <1> <2> <3> <4>

linem <1> <2>

Lorgna projection

Loximuthal projection

M

map

map axes

defining map projection <1> <2>

modifying properties

retrieving map structure

retrieving properties

setting properties <1> <2>

map data

extracting from data structures

See also matrix data

See also vector data

map frame

modifying properties

setting properties <1> <2> <3>

map grid

modifying properties

setting properties <1> <2> <3>

map grid labels

displaying <1> <2>

modifying properties

setting properties <1> <2>

map legend vector

map origin See origin

map projection

defining <1> <2>

identification strings

Marinus of Tyre <1> <2>

Mars See almanac

matrix data

displaying <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

displaying as lighted <1> <2>

displaying as shaded relief <1> <2>

trimming <1> <2>

matrix map

constructing graticule mesh

encoding regions

replacing elements <1> <2>

McBryde, F. Webster <1> <2> <3>

McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Parabolic projection

McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic projection

McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Sinusoidal projection

mean of geographic points

Mercator Equal-Area projection

Mercator projection <1> <2> <3> <4>

Mercator, Gerardus <1> <2>

Mercury See almanac

meridian labels

mesh See graticule mesh

meshm <1> <2>

Miller Cylindrical projection

Miller, Osborn Maitland

Mollweide projection <1> <2>

Mollweide, Carl B.

Moon See almanac

mouse interactions

defining small circles

processing button down callbacks

selecting coordinates

Murdoch I Conic projection

Murdoch III Minimum Error Conic projection

Murdoch, Patrick <1> <2>

N

NaNs, matrix map

National Geographic Society

navigational fixing

navigational track

calculating segments between waypoints

navigational track format

Neptune See almanac

Nordic projection

O

objects

assigning tag <1> <2>

deleting <1> <2>

displaying <1> <2>

editing properties of

modifying zdata <1> <2>

retrieving handle <1> <2>

retrieving name

testing if mapped

ones matrix map

Ordinary Polyconic projection

origin

computing <1> <2>

interactive modification

Orthographic projection <1> <2> <3>

Orthophanic projection

P

parallel labels

patch objects <1> <2> <3> <4>

patches

patchesm <1> <2>

patchm <1> <2>

pcolorm <1> <2>

Peters projection

Plate Carree projection

Plate Carrée projection <1> <2> <3> <4>

plot3m <1> <2>

plotm <1> <2>

Pluto See almanac

pole transformation

Polyconic projection

polygon surface area

position

Postel projection <1> <2>

Postel, Guillaume

projection

Projection of Marinus <1> <2>

property editors

Ptolemy, Claudius <1> <2>

Putnins P4 projection

Putnins P5 projection

Putnins, Reinholds V.

Q

quadrangle surface area

Quartic Authalic projection

querying map data

quiver3m <1> <2>

quiverm <1> <2>

R

radius of auxiliary sphere

radius of curvature

radius of planets See almanac

range

finding cross fix position

raster data See matrix data

reading ASCII files

reckoning <1> <2>

Rectangular projection <1> <2>

regular matrix map

calculating required matrix size

creating colormap

displaying as image

encoding regions

latitude and longitude limits <1> <2>

projecting <1> <2>

projecting shaded relief

retrieving values

seeds for encoding

transforming to new coordinate system origin

rhumb line track

calculating from one point

calculating from two points

rhumb lines intersection

Robinson projection

Robinson, Arthur H.

Ruysch, Johannes

S

Sanson-Flamsteed projection

Saturn See almanac

scatterm <1> <2>

shaded relief map

constructing cdata

constructing colormap

general matrix map

regular matrix map

showm <1> <2>

Siemon, Karl <1> <2>

Simple Conic projection

Simple Cylindrical projection

Sinusoidal projection <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

small circles

calculating <1> <2>

defining with mouse

intersection with great circles

Stabius, Johannes

Stab-Werner projection

standard deviation of geographic points

standard distance of geographic points

stem3m <1> <2>

Stereographic projection <1> <2> <3>

Sun See almanac

surface area

planets See almanac

regular matrix map

surface distance

along a parallel See departure

between track waypoints

between two points

surface objects

constructing graticule mesh

projecting <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6>

projecting lighted <1> <2>

surfacem <1> <2>

surflm <1> <2>

surfm <1> <2>

Sylvanus, Bernardus

T

text

mouse placement

projecting <1> <2>

textm <1> <2>

Thomas, Paul D. <1> <2> <3>

TIGER data

reading FIPS name files

TIGER/Line data

time

converting to matrix elements

converting to string

converting units <1> <2> <3> <4> <5> <6> <7>

time zone

determining from longitude

tissot indicatrices

Tissot Modified Sinusoidal projection

Tobler, Waldo R.

track

See great circle track

See navigational track

See rhumb line track

track waypoints

transformation of coordinate system

Transverse Mercator projection

Trystan Edwards Cylindrical projection <1> <2>

Tunhuang star chart

U

units

converting See conversion

testing for valid abbreviations

testing for valid strings

Universal Polar Stereographic projection

Universal Transverse Mercator projection <1> <2>

Uranus See almanac

USGS DEM data

reading files <1> <2>

returning filenames

usgsdem <1> <2>

utm

UTM projection <1> <2>

V

Van der Grinten I projection

Van der Grinten projection

Van der Grinten, Alphons J.

vector data

converting to matrix format

displaying as lines <1> <2> <3> <4>

displaying as patches <1> <2> <3> <4> <5>

trimming <1> <2>

Venus See almanac

Vertical Perspective Azimuthal projection

volume of planets See almanac

von Hammer, H. H. Ernst

W

Wagner I projection

Wagner IV projection

Wagner, Karlheinz <1> <2>

waypoints

See also track waypoints

Werner projection <1> <2>

Werner, Johannes

Wetch Cylindrical projection

Wetch projection

Wiechel projection

Winkel I projection

Wright projection

Y

Z

zdatam <1> <2>

Zenithal Equal-Area projection

Zenithal Equidistant projection

Zenithal Equivalent projection

Zenithal projection <1> <2>

zeros

creating matrix map

creating sparse matrix map

zooming in and out of map displays

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