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General Stereographic Map

In terms of usage this projection is identical to the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. Thus, one can make both rectangular and hemispheric maps. Our example shows Australia using a projection pole at 130E/30oS. The command used was

    gmtset DEGREE_FORMAT 1 OBLIQUE_ANOTATION 0
    pscoast -R100/-40/160/-10r -JS130/-30/4i -B30g10/15g15 -Dl -A500 -G0 -P \
        >! GMT_stereographic_general.ps

Figure 5.14: General stereographic conformal projection with rectangular borders.

By choosing 0o/0oas the pole, we obtain the conformal stereonet presented next to its equal-area cousin in the Section 5.3.1 on the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection (Figure 5.11).