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    The Craig retroazimuthal map projection was created by James Ireland Craig in 1909. It is a modified cylindrical projection. As a retroazimuthal projection...
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    The Hammer retroazimuthal projection is a modified azimuthal proposed by Ernst Hermann Heinrich Hammer in 1910. As a retroazimuthal projection, azimuths...
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  • mentioned in the notes. Gnomonic All great circles are straight lines. Retroazimuthal Direction to a fixed location B (by the shortest route) corresponds...
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    Littrow—the only conformal retroazimuthal projection Hammer retroazimuthal—also preserves distance from the central point Craig retroazimuthal aka Mecca or Qibla—also...
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  • James Ireland Craig FRSE CBE (1868–1952) was a Scottish mathematician, meteorologist and creator of the Craig retroazimuthal projection. He was born on...
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  • Map projection Orthographic projection (cartography) Robinson projection Stereographic projection Dymaxion map Topographic map Craig retroazimuthal projection...
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  • Thumbnail for Azimuthal equidistant projection
    Azimuthal equidistant projection maps The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points...
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  • Thumbnail for Transverse Mercator projection
    The transverse Mercator map projection (TM, TMP) is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection. The transverse version is widely used in national...
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    did not claim to be the first to use it for this purpose. Craig retroazimuthal projection Digital Qibla Compass Schmidl, Petra G. (1996–97). "Two Early...
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  • Thumbnail for Littrow projection
    Littrow projection is a map projection developed by Joseph Johann von Littrow in 1833. It is the only conformal, retroazimuthal map projection. As a retroazimuthal...
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    The Werner projection is a pseudoconic equal-area map projection sometimes called the Stab-Werner or Stabius-Werner projection. Like other heart-shaped...
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    The Dymaxion map projection, also called the Fuller projection, is a kind of polyhedral map projection of the Earth's surface onto the unfolded net of...
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    stereographic projection is a perspective projection of the sphere, through a specific point on the sphere (the pole or center of projection), onto a plane...
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  • Thumbnail for Orthographic map projection
    Orthographic projection in cartography has been used since antiquity. Like the stereographic projection and gnomonic projection, orthographic projection is a...
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    first formal design of a retroazimuthal projection in the Western literature is the Craig projection or the Mecca projection, created by the Scottish...
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  • Thumbnail for Gall–Peters projection
    The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical...
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  • Thumbnail for Winkel tripel projection
    The Winkel tripel projection (Winkel III), a modified azimuthal map projection of the world, is one of three projections proposed by German cartographer...
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  • Thumbnail for Equal-area projection
    or equal-area projection is a map projection that preserves relative area measure between any and all map regions. Equivalent projections are widely used...
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  • Thumbnail for Stereographic map projection
    stereographic projection, also known as the planisphere projection or the azimuthal conformal projection, is a conformal map projection whose use dates...
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  • Swiss James Ireland Craig (1868–1952), inventor of the Craig retroazimuthal projection, otherwise known as the Mecca projection J. H. Colton (United...
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  • Thumbnail for Goode homolosine projection
    Goode homolosine projection (or interrupted Goode homolosine projection) is a pseudocylindrical, equal-area, composite map projection used for world maps...
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    The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker Gerardus Mercator...
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    sinusoidal projection is a pseudocylindrical equal-area map projection, sometimes called the Sanson–Flamsteed or the Mercator equal-area projection. Jean Cossin...
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  • Thumbnail for Gnomonic projection
    gnomonic projection, also known as a central projection or rectilinear projection, is a perspective projection of a sphere, with center of projection at the...
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    The Robinson projection is a map projection of a world map that shows the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find a good...
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  • Thumbnail for Mollweide projection
    known as the Babinet projection, homalographic projection, homolographic projection, and elliptical projection. The projection trades accuracy of angle...
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  • Thumbnail for Van der Grinten projection
    der Grinten projection is a compromise map projection, which means that it is neither equal-area nor conformal. Unlike perspective projections, the van der...
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  • Thumbnail for Lee conformal world in a tetrahedron
    The Lee conformal world in a tetrahedron is a polyhedral, conformal map projection that projects the globe onto a tetrahedron using Dixon elliptic functions...
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    A Lambert conformal conic projection (LCC) is a conic map projection used for aeronautical charts, portions of the State Plane Coordinate System, and many...
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  • Thumbnail for Hobo–Dyer projection
    The Hobo–Dyer map projection is a normal cylindrical equal-area projection, with standard parallels (there is no north-south or east-west distortion) at...
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