The central cylindrical projection is a perspective cylindrical map projection. It corresponds to projecting the Earth's surface onto a cylinder tangent...

between the various "natural" cylindrical projections. But the term cylindrical as used in the field of map projections relaxes the last constraint entirely...

The Miller cylindrical projection is a modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller in 1942. The latitude is scaled by a factor of...

width commensurately in various ratios. The projection: is cylindrical, that means it has a cylindrical projection surface is normal, that means it has a normal...

The Mercator projection (/mərˈkeɪtər/) is a conformal cylindrical map projection first presented by Flemish geographer and mapmaker Gerardus Mercator...

Gall–Peters projection is a rectangular, equal-area map projection. Like all equal-area projections, it distorts most shapes. It is a cylindrical equal-area...

the Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection, or Lambert cylindrical projection, is a cylindrical equal-area projection. This projection is undistorted...

The equirectangular projection (also called the equidistant cylindrical projection or la carte parallélogrammatique projection), and which includes the...

possible map projections, there can be no comprehensive list. *The first known popularizer/user and not necessarily the creator. Cylindrical In normal aspect...

The Gall stereographic projection, presented by James Gall in 1855, is a cylindrical projection. It is neither equal-area nor conformal but instead tries...

traits from the normal Mercator: Both projections are cylindrical: for the normal Mercator, the axis of the cylinder coincides with the polar axis and the...

which reduced scale errors to 1/50. Mercator projection (conformal cylindrical projection) Mercator projection of normal aspect (Every rhumb line is drawn...

only maps based on the Gall–Peters projection, a similar cylindrical equal-area projection, or the AuthaGraph projection, beginning in the 2024–2025 school...

The Behrmann projection is a cylindrical equal-area map projection described by Walter Behrmann in 1910. Cylindrical equal-area projections differ by their...

trigonometric identities. In cylindrical coordinates (r, θ, z) on the sphere and polar coordinates (R, Θ) on the plane, the projection and its inverse are (...

projection Pseudoconical Bonne Bottomley Werner Cylindrical (with latitude of no distortion) Lambert cylindrical equal-area (0°) Behrmann (30°) Hobo–Dyer (37°30′)...

setting down the equations of any given projection. For example, the equirectangular cylindrical projection may be written as cartographers:        x...

The Winkel tripel projection (Winkel III), a modified azimuthal map projection of the world, is one of three projections proposed by German cartographer...

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...

involved. List of map projections Albers projection Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection Spatial reference system...

Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection. List of map projections Stereographic projection in cartography Snyder, J. P. (1987). Map Projections—A Working...

The Dymaxion map projection, also called the Fuller projection, is a kind of polyhedral map projection of the Earth's surface onto the unfolded net of...

The Hobo–Dyer map projection is a normal cylindrical equal-area projection, with standard parallels (there is no north-south or east-west distortion) at...

gnomonic projection, also known as a central projection or rectilinear projection, is a perspective projection of a sphere, with center of projection at the...

The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionally correct...

traits from the normal Mercator: Both projections are cylindrical: for the normal Mercator, the axis of the cylinder coincides with the polar axis and the...

The Werner projection is a pseudoconic equal-area map projection sometimes called the Stab-Werner or Stabius-Werner projection. Like other heart-shaped...

The Aitoff projection is a modified azimuthal map projection proposed by David A. Aitoff in 1889. Based on the equatorial form of the azimuthal equidistant...

The projection represents the poles as points, as they are on the sphere, but the meridians and continents are distorted. The equator and the central meridian...

calculated to provide the equal-area property. The projection blends the cylindrical equal-area projection, which has straight, vertical meridians, with meridians...