The current version of G.Projector is 1.1.2, released 2008-03-04.
G.Projector was written by;
Robert B. Schmunk
Robert.B.Schmunk@nasa.gov
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025 USA
G.Projector uses the following third-party, open-source Java libraries, provided under various license as indicated. You may view the licenses and download the source code for these libraries at the URLs provided.
iText Java-PDF library, ver. 2.0.
Copyright © 1999-2007 by Bruno Lowagie and Paulo Soares.
Available at
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/.
Used under terms of the Mozilla Public License.
JDOM library, ver 1.1.
Copyright © 2000-2007 Jason Hunter and Brett McLaughlin.
Available at
http://www.jdom.org/.
Used under terms of a modified Apache License.
QuantizeFilter and related classes.
Copyright © 1998-2001 Jerry Huxtable.
Available at
http://www.jhlabs.com/ip/.
Used under terms of the Apache License, ver. 2.0.
Thanks to Paul B. Anderson for assistance with cartography references and sample code for some map projections.
The following texts have been particularly useful in developing the map projections code in G.Projector:
Canters, F. 2002: Small-scale Map Projection Design. Taylor & Francis: London and New York.
Canters, F., and H. Decleir 1989: The World in Perspective: A Directory of World Map Projections. John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, England.
Evenden, G. 1995. Cartographic Projection Procedures, Release 4, Second Interim Report. PDF file dated Sep. 24, 1995.
Evenden, G. 2005: libproj4: A Comprehensive Library of Cartographic Projection Functions (Preliminary Draft). PDF file dated March 2005, last accessed at http://members.verizon.net/~vze2hc4d/proj4/, Feb. 16, 2007.
Furuti, C.A. 2002 (et seq.): Map Projections. Website last accessed at http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/, Feb. 16, 2007.
Ipbüker, C., and I.O. Bildirici 2002: A general algorithm for the inverse transformation of map projections using Jacobian matrices. In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Applications (Sep. 4-6, 2002, Konya, Turkey), pp. 175-182.
Snyder, J.P. 1982: Map Projections Used by the U.S. Geological Survey, 2nd ed. Geological Survey Bulletin 1532. U.S. Government Printing Office.
Snyder, J.P., and P.M. Voxland 1989: An Album of Map Projections. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1453. U.S. Government Printing Office.