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Summary



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Projection





Type

Properties

Suitable for

General use

Conformal

Equal Area

Equidistant

True direction

Perspective

Compromise

Straight rhumbs

World

Hemisphere

Continent/Ocean

Region/Sea

Medium scale

Large Scale

Topographic maps

Geological Maps

Thematic maps

Presentations

Navigation

Mercator

Cylindrical

Transverse Mercator

Cylindrical

Oblique Mercator

Cylindrical

Miller Cylindrical

Cylindrical

Robinson

Pseudocylindrical

Sinusoidal Equal Area

Pseudocylindrical

Orthographic

Azimuthal

Stereographic

Azimuthal

Gnomonic

Azimuthal

Azimuthal Equidistant

Azimuthal

Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area

Azimuthal

Albers Equal Area Conic

Conic

Lambert Conformal Conic

Conic

Equidistant Conic

Conic

Polyconic

Conic

(United States Geological Survey, n.d.)