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User's Guide: Projection List

(Updated Mar. 4, 2008)

Following is the complete list of the map projections included in G.Projector as of version 1.1.2, along with alternative names. GIFs of a color map projection of Earth (centered on 0°E 45°N) are linked for each unique projection.

Projection Name GIF Characteristics
Adams Orthembadic   See Quartic Authalic
Albers Equal-Area Conic
(shown for ϕ1 = 60°, ϕ2 = 30°)
GIF Conic
Aitoff GIF Polyconic, equally spaced parallels
Aitoff-Wagner   See Wagner IX
Apian Globular I   See Ortelius Oval
Apian Globular II GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, elliptical meridians
Azimuthal Equal-Area GIF Azimuthal, equal-area
Azimuthal Equidistant GIF Azimuthal
Baker Dinomic GIF Composite: joins Mercator and ??? at 45°
Babinet   See Mollweide
Behrmann   See Cylindrical Equal-Area (apply ϕts = 30°)
Boggs Eumorphic GIF Pseudocylindric, equal area
Bonne
(shown for ϕ0 = 50°)
GIF Pseudoconic, equal area
Canters   See Canters Polyconic 1989 f9
Canters Polyconic 1989 f9 GIF Polyconic, low-error
Canters Pseudocylindric 2002 f5.18 GIF Pseudocylindric, low-error, pole line
Canters Pseudocylindric 2002 f5.19 GIF Pseudocylindric, low-error, pole line
Canters Pseudocylindric 2002 f5.20 GIF Pseudocylindric, low-error, pole line
Canters Pseudocylindric 2002 f5.23 GIF Pseudocylindric, low-error, pointed pole
Cordiform   See Bonne (apply ϕ0 = 90°)
Craster Parabolic   See Parabolic
Cylindrical Equal-Area
(shown for ϕts = 30°)
GIF See Cylindric, equal area
Cylindrical Equidistant   See Equirectangular
Denoyer Semi-Elliptical GIF Pseudocylindric
Eckert III GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, elliptical meridians, pole line
Eckert IV GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, elliptical meridians, pole line
Eckert V GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, sinusoidal meridians, pole line
Eckert VI GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, sinusoidal meridians, pole line
Eckert-Greifendorff GIF Polyconic, equal-area
Equidistant Conic
(shown for ϕ1 = 60°, ϕ2 = 30°)
GIF Conic, equally spaced parallels
Equirectangular
(shown for ϕts = 0°)
GIF Cylindric, equidistant
Érdi-Krausz GIF Composite
Fahey GIF Pseudocylindric
Foucaut GIF Pseudocylindric
Gall-Peters   See Cylindrical Equal-Area (apply ϕts = 45°)
Gall Orthographic   See Cylindrical Equal-Area (apply ϕts = 45°)
Gall Stereographic GIF Cylindric
Ginsburg VIII GIF Pseudocylindric
Goode Homolosine GIF Composite: joins sinusoidal and Mollwedie at 40°44' (Note: Not in interrupted form)
Hammer GIF Polyconic, equal-area
Hammer-Aitoff   See Hammer
Hammer-Wagner   See Wagner VII
Hölzel GIF Pseudocylindric
Homolographic   See Mollweide
Kavraisky V GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area
Kavraisky VI   See Wagner I
Kavraisky VII GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, elliptical meridians, pole line
Lambert Conformal Conic
(shown for ϕ1 = 60°, ϕ2 = 30°)
GIF Conic
Lambert Cylindrical Equal-Area   See Cylindrical Equal-Area (apply ϕts = 0°)
Larrivée GIF
McBryde P3 GIF Composite: joins parabolic and M.T. flat-polar parabolic at 49°20'
McBryde Q3 GIF Composite: joins quartic authalic and M.T. flat-polar quartic authalic at 52°9'
McBryde S2 GIF Composite: joins sinusoidal and Eckert VI at 49°16'
McBryde S3 GIF Composite: joins sinusoidal and (???) at 55°51'
McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Parabolic GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, parabolic meridians, pole line
McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, quartic meridians, pole line
McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Sinusoidal GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, sinusoidal meridians, pole line
McBryde-Thomas Sine #1 GIF Pseudocylindric
Mercator GIF Cylindric
Miller Cylindric I GIF Cylindric
Modified Gall GIF Pseudocylindric
Mollweide GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, elliptical meridians
Nell GIF Pseudocylindric, pole line
Nell-Hammer GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, pole line
Ortelius Oval GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, circular meridians, pole line
Orthographic GIF Azimuthal, perspective view
Oxford Atlas   See Modified Gall
Parabolic GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, parabolic meridians
Pavlov GIF Cylindric
Peters   See Cylindrical Equal-Area (apply ϕts = 45°)
Plate Carrée   See Equirectangular (apply ϕts = 0°)
Putniņš P1 GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, elliptical meridians
Putniņš P1'   See Wagner VI
Putniņš P2 GIF Pseudocylindric, elliptical meridians
Putniņš P2'   See Wagner IV
Putniņš P3 GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, parabolic meridians
Putniņš P3' GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, parabolic meridians, pole line
Putniņš P4   See Parabolic
Putniņš P4' GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, parabolic meridians, pole line
Putniņš P5 GIF Pseudocylindric
Putniņš P5' GIF Pseudocylindric
Putniņš P6 GIF Pseudocylindric, hyperbolic meridians
Putniņš P6' GIF Pseudocylindric, hyperbolic meridians, pole line
Quartic-Authalic GIF Pseudocylindric
Raisz Armadillo
(shown for ϕtilt = 20°)
GIF Orthoapsidal
Raisz Half Ellipsoidal
(shown for ϕtilt = 20°)
GIF Orthoapsidal
Robinson GIF Pseudocylindric, pole line
Sanson-Flamsteed   See Sinusoidal
Sinusoidal GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, sinusoidal meridians
Stereographic GIF Azimuthal
Times Atlas GIF Pseudocylindric
TsNIIGAiK   See Ginsburg VIII
Urmayev Sinusoidal
(shown for b = 0.75)
GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, sinusoidal meridians, pole line except for b = 1 case (note: identical to Wagner I if b = 0.866; identical to Cylindrical Equal-Area for ϕts = 28° if b = 0; compressed horizontally from classic Sinusoidal if b = 1)
Van Der Grinten 1 GIF Polyconic, circular meridians, parallels
Vertical Perspective
(shown for P = 10×R)
GIF Azimuthal, perspective view
Wagner I GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, sinusoidal meridians, pole line (see also Urmayev Sinusoidal)
Wagner II GIF Pseudocylindric, sinusoidal meridians, pole line
Wagner III GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, sinusoidal meridians, pole line
Wagner IV GIF Pseudocylindric, equal-area, elliptical meridians, pole line
Wagner V GIF Pseudocylindric, elliptical meridians, pole line
Wagner VI GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, elliptical meridians, pole line
Wagner VII GIF Polyconic, equal-area, pole line
Wagner VIII GIF Polyconic, pole line
Wagner IX GIF Polyconic, equally spaced parallels, pole line
Werenskiold I   See Putniņš P4'
Werenskiold II   See Wagner I
Werenskiold III   See Wagner IV
Werner II   See Bonne (apply ϕ0 = 90°)
Winkel I
(shown for ϕts = 50°27'35")
GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, sinusoidal meridians, pole line
Winkel II GIF Pseudocylindric, equally spaced parallels, elliptical meridians, pole line
Winkel Tripel GIF Polyconic, equally spaced parallels, pole line

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