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    The Littrow projection is a map projection developed by Joseph Johann von Littrow in 1833. It is the only conformal, retroazimuthal map projection. As...
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  • Littrow may refer to: Joseph Johann von Littrow (1781-1840), Austrian astronomer Littrow projection, a map projection invented by Joseph Johann Littrow...
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  • Thumbnail for Joseph Johann von Littrow
    created the only conformal retroazimuthal map projection, which is known as the Littrow projection. Littrow authored the widely read Wunder des Himmels...
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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 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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  • stereographic projection with an adjustment by a polynomial on complex numbers.) Littrow projection (conformal retro-azimuthal projection) Lagrange projection (a...
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  • Thumbnail for Mercator projection
    The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in...
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    corresponds to the direction on the map from A to B: Littrow—the only conformal retroazimuthal projection Hammer retroazimuthal—also preserves distance from...
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  • Thumbnail for Taurus–Littrow
    20°00′N 31°00′E / 20.0°N 31.0°E / 20.0; 31.0 Taurus–Littrow is a lunar valley located on the near side at the coordinates 20°00′N 31°00′E / 20.0°N...
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  • Thumbnail for Equirectangular projection
    The equirectangular projection (also called the equidistant cylindrical projection or la carte parallélogrammatique projection), and which includes the...
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  • Thumbnail for Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection
    The Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection is a particular mapping from a sphere to a disk. It accurately represents area in all regions of the sphere...
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  • Thumbnail for Dymaxion map
    The Dymaxion map or Fuller map is a projection of a world map onto the surface of an icosahedron, which can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Robinson projection
    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 Lambert conformal conic projection
    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 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 Equal Earth projection
    The Equal Earth map projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical projection for world maps, invented by Bojan Šavrič, Bernhard Jenny, and Tom Patterson...
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  • Thumbnail for Werner projection
    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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  • Thumbnail for Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection
    cylindrical equal-area projection, or Lambert cylindrical projection, is a cylindrical equal-area projection. This projection is undistorted along the...
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  • Thumbnail for Azimuthal equidistant projection
    The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionally correct...
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  • Thumbnail for AuthaGraph projection
    AuthaGraph is an approximately equal-area world map projection invented by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa in 1999. The map is made by equally dividing...
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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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  • This is a summary of map projections that have articles of their own on Wikipedia or that are otherwise notable. Because there is no limit to the number...
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  • Thumbnail for General Perspective projection
    Perspective projection is a map projection. When the Earth is photographed from space, the camera records the view as a perspective projection. When the...
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  • Thumbnail for Cylindrical equal-area projection
    equal-area projection is a family of normal cylindrical, equal-area map projections. The invention of the Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection is attributed...
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  • Thumbnail for Albers projection
    Albers equal-area conic projection, or Albers projection (named after Heinrich C. Albers), is a conic, equal area map projection that uses two standard...
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  • Thumbnail for Sinusoidal projection
    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 Stereographic projection
    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 Peirce quincuncial projection
    The Peirce quincuncial projection is the conformal map projection from the sphere to an unfolded square dihedron, developed by Charles Sanders Peirce in...
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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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