There are about a dozen published variations of equidistant conic map projections. They are identical when using the same actual standard parallels, but the parallels are chosen differently. Greater ...

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THE first of the new series of technical publications issued by the Royal Geographical Society is an exhaustive investigation of map projections based upon Airy's ...

image: This global digital map of Phoebe was created using data taken during the Cassini spacecraft's close flyby of the small moon in June 2004. The mosaic is projected into the Mercator projection ...

THE author of this book, realising that geographers are not necessarily mathematicians, has attempted to explain the subject of map projections. The construction of the map has frequently been beyond ...