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Map projections

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representation of the surface of a sphere or ellipsoid onto a plane map

treatise on cartography by Claudius Ptolemaeus

mathematical function which preserves angles

Robinson projection

compromise map projection defined via a look-up table of precomputed values

gnomonic projection

orthographic projection in cartography

azimuthal perspective map projection

Winkel tripel projection

compromise map projection defined as the arithmetic mean of the equirectangular projection and the Aitoff projection

Tissot's indicatrix

characterizations of distortion in cartography

equal-area projection

map projection that preserves area measure, generally distorting shapes in order to do that

list of map projections

Wikimedia list article

van der Grinten projection

Aitoff projection

conformal map projection

map projection that preserves local angles

AuthaGraph projection

equal-area type world map projection

equal Earth projection

pseudocylindrical, equal-area map projection

Kavrayskiy VII projection

Pseudocylindrical map projection

Eckert projection

6 pseudocylindrical map projections devised by Max Eckert-Greifendorff

Waterman butterfly projection

world map projection in the shape of the namesake insect

Craig retroazimuthal projection

Map projection intended to help Muslims find their qibla

octant projection

Polyhedral compromise map projection