Questions tagged [distortion]
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Shift country polygons to other world-regions in QGIS, adapting it's size corresponding to the true area
On the website The true size of ..., you can shift the shape of countries to other world regions to see the true size (area) on a distorted map (mercator projection). Dragging Greenland over Africa ...
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After how much distance does the x,y coordinate system become noticeably distorted?
I'm working with maritime sensors that give information of moving objects it detects, in azimuth, range and elevation, and we convert it to x,y coordinates for our application to be able to process it....
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ST_AsMVT vector tiles distort at low zoom levels
I'm serving up a data from PostGIS by converting it into a tile and then bytes and then onto a leaflet map. It all works, with one exception, the latitudes stretch ever greater towards the poles when ...
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Fix distortions when reprojecting cshapes world maps?
I am using the cshapes package in R as a source of historically accurate country borders. While the default WGS 84 maps plot fine, I would like to reproject the maps. This introduces some distortions ...
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Artefacts in Sentinel 1 Imagery
When loading Sentinel-1 imagery using the GEE template script and zooming to the Arabian Peninsular some areas appear distorted with higher values for VV and VH bands independent of the time frame ...
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Clipping vector layers with different CRS
I have two vector layers:
provinces (Belge_Lambert_1972, EPSG:103300) - clip layer
building (WGS 84/ Pseudo Mercator, EPSG:3857) - input layer
I would like to overlay them, however there is ...
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