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 ...

IT is very satisfactory to find that at the present time care is being taken that the principles of map projection are being studied as soon as the use of maps is seriously undertaken. At one time ...

Map projections were created to display the 3D earth in a 2D space by distorting reality in order to preserve area, direction, distances or shape. The wonderful alternative projections below won't ...

In 1677, John Adams advertised his 'new large Map of England' wherein distances could be read 'without Scale and Compass'. A little later, in 1680, somewhat as a by-product, he produced, to supplement ...