Re: [Matplotlib-users] indicating directions on stereographic projection.

[Sourav C. <sr...@gm...>]

Thanks everyone for your views. Joe- Thank you for the link. It's really
worthy.


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Piet van Oostrum <pi...@va...>wrote:

> Paul Hobson wrote:
>
>  > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Sourav Chatterjee <sr...@gm...>
> wrote:
>  >
>  >     Hello,
>  >
>  >     I have stereographic projection of the pole. I need to indicate the
> directions like
>  >     north,south,east, west, north-east, north-west and so on. Is there
> any way to do so?
>  >
>  >     Thanks
>  >     Sourav
>  >
>  > I am **very far** from a GIS expert, but I believe that the cardinal
> directions are ambiguous at
>  > the poles. In other words, if you're standing on the North Pole, it'd
> difficult to head in any
>  > direction that's not towards the south pole.
>  >
>  > Curious to hear if I'm wrong, though.
>  >
> Yes, on the North Pole, every direction is South, on the South Pole, every
> direction is North.
> --
> Piet van Oostrum <pi...@va...>
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Sourav Chatterjee
Trainee Scientist
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune