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Transverse Mercator
The transverse Mercator was invented by Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1772. In this projection the cylinder touches a meridian along which there is no distortion. The distortion increases away from the central meridian and goes to infinity at 90° from center. The central meridian, each meridian 90° away from the center, and equator are straight lines; other parallels and meridians are complex curves.
tlon0[/lat0]/scale or Tlon0[/lat0]/width
The projection is set with t or T. The central meridian is set by lon0, the latitude of the origin is set by the optional lat0, and the figure size is set with scale or width.
![cyl transverse mercator](../../_images/sphx_glr_cyl_transverse_mercator_001.png)
import pygmt
fig = pygmt.Figure()
fig.coast(
region=[20, 50, 30, 45],
projection="T35/12c",
land="lightbrown",
water="seashell",
shorelines="thinnest",
frame="afg",
)
fig.show()
Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.202 seconds)