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    a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane. In a map projection...
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  • map projections that have articles of their own on Wikipedia or that are otherwise notable. Because there is no limit to the number of possible map projections...
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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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  • 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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    world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered...
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    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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  • In cartography, a conformal map projection is one in which every angle between two curves that cross each other on Earth (a sphere or an ellipsoid) is...
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  • Thumbnail for Mollweide projection
    The Mollweide projection is an equal-area, pseudocylindrical map projection generally used for maps of the world or celestial sphere. It is also known...
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    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 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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    the plate carrée projection (also called the geographic projection, lat/lon projection, or plane chart), is a simple map projection attributed to Marinus...
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    Orthographic projection in cartography has been used since antiquity. Like the stereographic projection and gnomonic projection, orthographic projection is a...
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    In map projections, an interruption is any place where the globe has been split. All map projections are interrupted at at least one point. Typical world...
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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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    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 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 Hammer projection
    projection is an equal-area map projection described by Ernst Hammer in 1892. Using the same 2:1 elliptical outer shape as the Mollweide projection,...
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  • Thumbnail for Polyhedral map projection
    A polyhedral map projection is a map projection based on a spherical polyhedron. Typically, the polyhedron is overlaid on the globe, and each face of the...
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    projection (also orthogonal projection and analemma) is a means of representing three-dimensional objects in two dimensions. Orthographic projection is...
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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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    bijective function from the entire sphere except the center of projection to the entire plane. It maps circles on the sphere to circles or lines on the plane...
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    "azimuthal", the projection is also known as the Lambert zenithal equal-area projection. The Lambert azimuthal projection is used as a map projection in cartography...
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  • Thumbnail for Goode homolosine projection
    homolosine projection (or interrupted Goode homolosine projection) is a pseudocylindrical, equal-area, composite map projection used for world maps. Normally...
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  • Thumbnail for Web Mercator projection
    variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted it in 2005...
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    geodetic framework that defines the map projection, coordinate system, ellipsoid and geodetic datum. Official topographic maps also adopt a national grid referencing...
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  • map projection is a map of a part of the surface of the Earth onto a plane, which, in some cases, but not always, is the restriction of a projection in...
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    is an approximately equal-area world map projection invented by Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa in 1999. The map is made by equally dividing a spherical...
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    Projection, developed by Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator, was widely used as the standard two-dimensional projection of the earth for world maps...
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    distortion gets distributed depends on the map projection. Scale varies across the map, and the stated map scale is only an approximation. This is discussed...
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  • Thumbnail for Gall stereographic projection
    the point being mapped and with the projective surface being a cylinder secant to the sphere at 45°N and 45°S. Gall called the projection "stereographic"...
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