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... 31 KB (766 words) - 10:44, 26 March 2024 |
The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection presented by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in... 42 KB (5,841 words) - 14:36, 13 March 2024 |
The Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical... 17 KB (1,939 words) - 22:08, 21 February 2024 |
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... 9 KB (834 words) - 03:05, 18 March 2024 |
stereographic projection, also known as the planisphere projection or the azimuthal conformal projection, is a conformal map projection whose use dates... 6 KB (721 words) - 18:13, 10 January 2023 |
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... 11 KB (1,204 words) - 04:04, 9 March 2024 |
The Mollweide projection is an equal-area, pseudocylindrical map projection generally used for maps of the world or celestial sphere. It is also known... 8 KB (972 words) - 23:03, 20 September 2023 |
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... 12 KB (1,246 words) - 21:23, 6 February 2024 |
the plate carrée projection (also called the geographic projection, lat/lon projection, or plane chart), is a simple map projection attributed to Marinus... 7 KB (762 words) - 10:16, 18 November 2023 |
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... 5 KB (499 words) - 11:06, 3 September 2023 |
The Winkel tripel projection (Winkel III), a modified azimuthal map projection of the world, is one of three projections proposed by German cartographer... 6 KB (571 words) - 06:18, 22 November 2023 |
or equal-area projection is a map projection that preserves relative area measure between any and all map regions. Equivalent projections are widely used... 8 KB (783 words) - 00:50, 12 March 2024 |
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... 9 KB (972 words) - 04:04, 7 March 2024 |
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,... 4 KB (518 words) - 09:59, 16 February 2024 |
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... 9 KB (939 words) - 07:24, 25 July 2023 |
projection (also orthogonal projection and analemma) is a means of representing three-dimensional objects in two dimensions. Orthographic projection is... 12 KB (1,531 words) - 23:36, 11 March 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,578 words) - 19:02, 18 March 2023 |
Projection, developed by Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator, was widely used as the standard two-dimensional projection of the earth for world maps... 34 KB (4,200 words) - 18:39, 23 March 2024 |
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"... 3 KB (353 words) - 17:46, 10 January 2023 |