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  2. Equal-area projection - Wikipedia

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    In cartography, an equivalent, authalic, or equal-area projection is a map projection that preserves relative area measure between any and all map regions. Equivalent projections are widely used for thematic maps showing scenario distribution such as population, farmland distribution, forested areas, and so forth, because an equal-area map does ...

  3. Map projection - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, an area-preserving projection can not be conformal, resulting in shapes and bearings distorted in most places of the map. Each projection preserves, compromises, or approximates basic metric properties in different ways. The purpose of the map determines which projection should form the base for the map.

  4. Conformal map - Wikipedia

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    A diffeomorphism between two Riemannian manifolds is called a conformal map if the pulled back metric is conformally equivalent to the original one. For example, stereographic projection of a sphere onto the plane augmented with a point at infinity is a conformal map.

  5. Conformal map projection - Wikipedia

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    In cartography, a conformal map projection is one in which every angle between two curves that cross each other on Earth (a sphere or an ellipsoid) is preserved in the image of the projection; that is, the projection is a conformal map in the mathematical sense. For example, if two roads cross each other at a 39° angle, their images on a map ...

  6. Social projection - Wikipedia

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    In social psychology, social projection is the psychological process through which an individual expects behaviors or attitudes of others to be similar to their own. Social projection occurs between individuals as well as across ingroup and outgroup contexts in a variety of domains. [ 1 ]

  7. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Guyou hemisphere-in-a-square projection: Other Conformal Émile Guyou: Tessellates. 1925 Adams hemisphere-in-a-square projection: Other Conformal Oscar S. Adams: 1965 Lee conformal world on a tetrahedron: Polyhedral Conformal Laurence Patrick Lee: Projects the globe onto a regular tetrahedron. Tessellates. 1514 Octant projection: Polyhedral ...

  8. Stereographic map projection - Wikipedia

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    The stereographic projection, also known as the planisphere projection or the azimuthal conformal projection, is a conformal map projection whose use dates back to antiquity. Like the orthographic projection and gnomonic projection , the stereographic projection is an azimuthal projection , and when on a sphere, also a perspective projection .

  9. Cylindrical equal-area projection - Wikipedia

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    The projection: is cylindrical, that means it has a cylindrical projection surface [2] is normal, that means it has a normal aspect; is an equal-area projection, that means any two areas in the map have the same relative size compared to their size on the sphere.