Note
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Transverse Mercator¶
The transverse Mercator was invented by Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1772. In this projection the cylinder touches a meridian along which there is no distortion. The distortion increases away from the central meridian and goes to infinity at 90° from center. The central meridian, each meridian 90° away from the center, and equator are straight lines; other parallels and meridians are complex curves.
T[lon0/][lat0/]width
: Give central meridian lon0
, the latitude of the
origin lat0
(optional), and the figure width.
![cyl transverse mercator](../../_images/sphx_glr_cyl_transverse_mercator_001.png)
Out:
<IPython.core.display.Image object>
import pygmt
fig = pygmt.Figure()
fig.coast(
region=[20, 50, 30, 45],
projection="T35/12c",
land="lightbrown",
water="seashell",
shorelines="thinnest",
frame="afg",
)
fig.show()
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.617 seconds)