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    Polyconic can refer either to a class of map projections or to a specific projection known less ambiguously as the American polyconic projection. Polyconic...
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    early in the 19th century. It belongs to the polyconic projection class, which consists of map projections whose parallels are non-concentric circular...
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    about one square degree. It belongs to the polyconic projection class, which consists of map projections whose parallels are non-concentric circular...
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    along all parallels. American polyconic and other projections in the polyconic projection class. Azimuthal projections have the property that directions...
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    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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    HEALPix (category Map projections)
    subdivision of a distorted rhombic dodecahedron, and the associated class of map projections. The pixelisation algorithm was devised in 1997 by Krzysztof M...
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  • Thumbnail for Chamberlin trimetric projection
    The Chamberlin trimetric projection is a map projection where three points are fixed on the globe and the points on the sphere are mapped onto a plane...
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  • Thumbnail for Boggs eumorphic projection
    The Boggs eumorphic projection is a pseudocylindrical, equal-area map projection used for world maps. Normally it is presented with multiple interruptions...
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  • Conformal Conic Projection (PDF), U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Special Pub. No. 53 —— (1919), General Theory of Polyconic Projections, U.S. Coast and...
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  • compilation by ink fair drawing at 'one-mile-to-two-inches' using a polyconic projection and lithographic draughting for colour separation (seven colours)...
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