25 April, 2020

Map Projections: The meaning and examples


Map projection
is a technique of flattening the spherical surface of the earth into a 2D map surface. Since the earth is spherical, it is impossible to flatten it out perfectly without causing some distortions to either its shape, distance, size or direction.

Depending on the purpose of the map, some distortions are acceptable and others are not. Therefore, various map projections have been developed in order to preserve some properties of the spherical earth, at the expense of other properties.

Today there are more than one thousand map projections. The most common ones include the Mercator projection, gall-peters projection, Robinson projection, Waterman projections, Goode-Homolosine etc.






9 comments:

  1. Dimma deez nuts

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  2. Dimma deez nuts

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  3. What’s the point of albers

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    1. Regional maps, mostly, like a map of Australia or a map of eastern Asia. You adjust how bent it is to match the region you're mapping. It also represents areas exactly, like Goode homolosine and Gall–Peters.

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  4. dimma deez nuts

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  5. Anonymous05 May, 2024

    The name of the fourth projection is WATERMAN... not WATERMELON.

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    1. Thank you for the amazing insight. We are working on correcting it

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  6. Anonymous27 May, 2024

    I was here

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  7. Anonymous30 May, 2024

    WATERMELON LMAOOOO

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