Transverse Mercator projection

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  Stereographic projection

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  Craig retroazimuthal projection

  The Craig retroazimuthal map projection was created by James Ireland Craig in 1909. It is a cylindrical projection preserving the direction from any place to another, predetermined place while avoiding some of the bizarre distortion of the Hammer retroazimuthal projection. It is sometimes known as...
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  Mercator projection

  The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569. It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant course, known as rhumb lines or loxodromes, as...
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  Space-oblique Mercator projection

  Space-oblique Mercator projection is a map projection. The Space-oblique Mercator projection (SOM) was developed by John P. Snyder, Alden Partridge Colvocoresses and John L. Junkins in 1976. Snyder had an interest in maps, originating back to his childhood and his regularly attended cartography...
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  Globe

  A globe is a three-dimensional scale model of Earth (terrestrial globe) or other spheroid celestial body such as a planet, star, or moon. It may also refer to a spherical representation of the celestial sphere, showing the apparent positions of the stars and constellations in the sky (celestial...
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  Miller cylindrical projection

  The Miller cylindrical projection is a modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller (1897–1979) in 1942. The parallels of latitude are scaled by a factor of 2/5, projected according to Mercator, and then the result is multiplied by 5/4 to retain scale along the equator. Hence:...
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  Lambert conformal conic projection

  A Lambert conformal conic projection (LCC) is a conic map projection, which is often used for aeronautical charts. In essence, the projection superimposes a cone over the sphere of the Earth, with two reference parallels secant to the globe and intersecting it. This minimizes distortion from...

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• Adams hemisphere-in-a-square projection

  The Adams-hemisphere-in-a-square is a conformal map projection for a hemisphere (except for four points where the conformality fails). It is a transverse version of the Peirce quincuncial projection. When it is used to represent the entire sphere it is known as the Adams doubly periodic projection.

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