Polar Maps and Projections: Part 2, Implementation

The first part of this article looked at different ways of producing polar maps and surveyed a number of different azimuthal projections that are often used for polar maps. In this second part, I produce a working implementation using UMN MapServer and OpenLayers.

Polar Maps and Projections: Part 1, Overview

With the success of my earlier series on global equal area map projections (starting with this overview), I received a number of requests to produce a similar how-to article for polar maps. The first part of this article (published here) provides an overview of a number of different map projections commonly used for polar maps. ...