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    The Gall stereographic projection, presented by James Gall in 1855, is a cylindrical projection. It is neither equal-area nor conformal but instead tries...
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    The stereographic projection, also known as the planisphere projection or the azimuthal conformal projection, is a conformal map projection whose use...
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    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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    mathematics, a stereographic projection is a perspective projection of the sphere, through a specific point on the sphere (the pole or center of projection), onto...
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    equator.: 156–157  To contrast, equal-area projections such as the Sinusoidal projection and the Gall–Peters projection show the correct sizes of countries relative...
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  • Thumbnail for Gall isographic projection
    The projection is named after James Gall, who presented it in 1855. Gall–Peters projection Gall stereographic projection Gall Isographic Projection, from...
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    Lines of the Universal Transverse Mercator and Universal Polar Stereographic Projections". International Journal of Geo-Information. 13 (2): 56. Bibcode:2024IJGI...
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  • Thumbnail for Equirectangular projection
    projection Gall–Peters projection (mentions a resolution rejecting the use of all rectangular world maps) List of map projections Mercator projection...
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  • Thumbnail for Orthographic map projection
    Orthographic projection in cartography has been used since antiquity. Like the stereographic projection and gnomonic projection, orthographic projection is a...
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  • Miller Oblated Stereographic Projection (Modified stereographic projection for continents of Africa and Europe.) GS50 projection (This projection are made from...
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  • Thumbnail for Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection
    the projection is called the equal-area hemispherical projection. There is also an equal-angle hemispherical projection defined by stereographic projection...
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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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    to three different map projections: Gall stereographic; Gall isographic; and Gall orthographic (Gall–Peters projection). Gall was born on 27 September...
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  • Thumbnail for AuthaGraph projection
    use only maps based on the Gall–Peters projection, a similar cylindrical equal-area projection, or the AuthaGraph projection, beginning in the 2024–2025...
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    known as the Babinet projection, homalographic projection, homolographic projection, and elliptical projection. The projection trades accuracy of angle...
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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 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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    response to the decision of the Boston public schools to adopt the Gall-Peters projection for world maps in March 2017, to accurately show the relative sizes...
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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 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 Guyou hemisphere-in-a-square projection
    computing the stereographic projection; this projection is then remapped into a square whose coordinates are then rotated 45 degrees. The projection is conformal...
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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 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 Miller cylindrical projection
    The Miller cylindrical projection is a modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller in 1942. The latitude is scaled by a factor of...
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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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    transforming the stereographic projection with a pole at infinity, by means of an elliptic function". The Peirce quincuncial is really a projection of the hemisphere...
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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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    social history of the Mercator projection and Gall–Peters projections.) Smyth, C. Piazzi. (1870). On an Equal-Surface Projection and its Anthropological Applications...
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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 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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