Projecting Data: An Example

Maps > Map Projections > Projecting Data: An Example

This section provides a simple example application illustrating the basic operations that you must perform when using a projection. It shows how to create a projection and compute the image of a geographic point on a flat surface.

This example is composed of the following steps:

Running the Example Application

Including the Projection Declaration

The Main Function

Initializing a Projection

Creating the Projected Data

Projecting the Data

Printing the Result of the Projection

Calculating the Inverse Projection

Printing Geographic Coordinates

The Complete Example

Complete Code Example

The complete code of the example on which this section is based can be found in the following file:

<installdir>/samples/maps/userman/src/useproj.cpp

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