A polyconic projection is a conical map projection. The projection stems from "rolling" a cone tangent to the Earth at all parallels of latitude, instead of a single cone in a normal conic projection. Each parallel is a circular arc of true scale. The scale is also true on the central meridian of the projection. The projection was in common use by many map-making agencies of the United States from its proposal by Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler in 1825...
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A polyconic projection is a conical map projection. The projection stems from "rolling" a cone tangent to the Earth at all parallels of latitude, instead of a single cone in a normal conic projection. Each parallel is a circular arc of true scale. The scale is also true on the central meridian of the projection. The projection was in common use by many map-making agencies of the United States from its proposal by Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler in 1825 until the middle of the 20th century.
The projection is defined by:
where λ is the longitude from the central meridian, and φ is the latitude. To avoid division by zero, the formulas above are extended so that if φ = 0 then x = λ and y = 0.
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