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Ortho Projection produces artifacts

I`m trying to create a sphere-like view using qgis and the "world from space"-projection http://spatialreference.org/ref/sr-org/6980/ (essentialy an ortho-projection). ArcGIS wraps the shapes ...
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How to get a "classical" globe projection

I have a shapefile of the world continents in EPSG 4326. To what reference system do I have to reproject my file to get a projecting like this globe below?
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Clipping polygons to hemisphere for azimuthal orthographic projection using QGIS

I'm a bit of a novice with QGIS, so this is really throwing me for a loop. For the maps I'm intending on making, an azimuthal orthographic projection would be my preference. For example, one map I'...
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Projecting Azimuthal Equidistant global map into circle using QGIS

I'm fairly new to QGIS/GIS. I have a shapefile of all the countries in the globe I downloaded from Natural Earth. I'm needing to create two hemisphere maps (similar to these guys I found on Wikimedia) ...
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How to plot a full hemispheric orthographic projection in R

I want to make a plot like that using R: All I want is the country borders as seen from outer space, no fancy colors needed. It seems I need to use the spTransform function, but it gives me a "non ...
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Plotting a certain range in azimuthal projection using ggplot2

I would like to limit a map to a particular range of values (i.e. northern hemisphere) under an azimuthal or orthographic projection in ggplot2. When I set ylim, I receive an error message that ...
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gdalwarp malfunctioning for GEOS projection

I'm trying to reproject a flat lat/lon image into geostationary projection. The input data is 1441x1441 pixels and covers the region -90 -> 90 lat and lon. The output data should be 3712x3712 ...
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How can I crop a raster layer to a hemisphere?

I have a raster layer that I want to crop to a hemisphere centered on 30°N, 100°W, to use in an orthographic projection map. What is the best way to do this? There doesn't seem to be an easy way to ...
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Orthographic reprojection with mapnik

I am trying to create a google earth like wep application. My problem is that I can't get to render a full view of the earth. The zoom_all() function generates the following error : RuntimeError: ...
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Using gdalwarp for warping Space View Perspective or Orthographic tiff?

i need to warp an image with a Space View Perspective or Orthographic project. What is the parameter for the gdalwarp -s_srs "+proj=???? +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84" -t_srs EPSG:4258 in.tiff out.tiff ? ...
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