Cartographic Geo Projections
Version 11 provides a large collection of several hundred cartographic projections for both spherical and ellipsoidal reference models. They can be classified in several ways, and here several examples of some of those types of projections are explored.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/In_57.png)
worldmap[proj_] := Framed[Labeled[
GeoGraphics["World", GeoBackground -> "Satellite",
GeoProjection -> proj, GeoGridLines -> Automatic,
GeoGridLinesStyle -> Directive[White, Opacity[0.25]]],
proj]]
Cylindrical projections.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/In_58.png)
worldmap /@ {"Balthasart", "Mercator", "BSAMCylindrical",
"CylindricalEqualArea"}
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![](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/O_45.png)
Pseudo-cylindrical projections.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/In_59.png)
worldmap /@ {"WinkelTripel", "Mollweide", "EckertI",
"FoucautStereographic"}
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![](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/O_46.png)
Conic projections.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/In_60.png)
worldmap /@ {"Albers", "ConicEquidistant", "Euler",
"LambertConicEqualArea"}
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![](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/O_47.png)
Pseudo-conic and polyconic projections.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/In_61.png)
worldmap /@ {"Bonne", "Werner", "Bottomley", "AmericanPolyconic"}
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![](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/O_48.png)
Azimuthal projections.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/In_62.png)
worldmap /@ {"LambertAzimuthal", "Orthographic", "GinzburgII", "Airy"}
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![](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/O_49.png)
Modified azimuthal and retroazimuthal projections.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/In_63.png)
worldmap /@ {"Aitoff", "Wiechel", "CraigRetroazimuthal", "Littrow"}
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![](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/O_50.png)
Miscellaneous projections.
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![Click for copyable input](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/In_64.png)
worldmap /@ {"Armadillo", "AugustEpicycloidal", "Lagrange",
"PeirceQuincuncial"}
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![](assets.en/cartographic-geo-projections/O_51.png)