Correctly proportion a lat/lon plot

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Correctly proportions a lat/lon plot based on a spherical Earth assumption
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LAT_LON_PROPORTIONS Scales a plot in latitude & longitude axis to
meters. It will compress the x axis by cos(latitude) in order to
reflect the relationship between a degree latitude and a degree
longitude at the center of the map. The major assumption here is
sperical Earth.

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Jonathan Sullivan (2026). Correctly proportion a lat/lon plot (https://ch.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/32462-correctly-proportion-a-lat-lon-plot), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2011a
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Inspired: Shaded Earth Map

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1.0.0.0