Re: A few PROJ Logo propositions

Mike Taves <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 02:53, Thomas Knudsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Howard, one way to make it "a little more earthy" would be to tilt the phi (and hence,
> the imagined rotation axis) by 23 degrees (or whatever works best in practice) to mimic
> the actual tilt of the Earth spin axis wrt the orbital plane. Not that "the average person"
> would recognize the tilt of the earth - but they would recognize the tilt of a globe.

Here are examples of tilted earths that could resemble a tilted phi:
http://earthrotation.net/ners/doc/ners_how.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IERS

Great contributions, everyone!
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