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  2. World map - Wikipedia

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    A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  3. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Gott, Goldberg and Vanderbei’s double-sided disk map was designed to minimize all six types of map distortions. Not properly "a" map projection because it is on two surfaces instead of one, it consists of two hemispheric equidistant azimuthal projections back-to-back. [5] [6] [7] 1879 Peirce quincuncial: Other Conformal Charles Sanders Peirce

  4. Gall–Peters projection - Wikipedia

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    Until its dissolution in 2020, Amherst-based ODT Maps Inc. was the exclusive North American publisher of Peters and Hobo–Dyer projection maps. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ] On April 16, 2024, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen signed a law that requires public schools to display maps based on the Gall–Peters projection, a similar cylindrical equal-area ...

  5. Map projection - Wikipedia

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    For smaller-scale maps, such as those spanning continents or the entire world, many projections are in common use according to their fitness for the purpose, such as Winkel tripel, Robinson and Mollweide. [40] Reference maps of the world often appear on compromise projections. Due to distortions inherent in any map of the world, the choice of ...

  6. Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    The projection found on these maps, dating to 1511, was stated by John Snyder in 1987 to be the same projection as Mercator's. [6] However, given the geometry of a sundial, these maps may well have been based on the similar central cylindrical projection, a limiting case of the gnomonic projection, which is the basis for a sundial. Snyder ...

  7. Goode homolosine projection - Wikipedia

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    The Goode homolosine projection (or interrupted Goode homolosine projection) is a pseudocylindrical, equal-area, composite map projection used for world maps. Normally it is presented with multiple interruptions, most commonly of the major oceans. Its equal-area property makes it useful for presenting spatial distribution of phenomena.

  8. Cartography - Wikipedia

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    These same maps were then used to cement territorial claims, such as at the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885. [40] Before 1749, maps of the African continent had African kingdoms drawn with assumed or contrived boundaries, with unknown or unexplored areas having drawings of animals, imaginary physical geographic features, and descriptive texts.

  9. Category:Maps by continent - Wikipedia

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    Category: Maps by continent. ... Maps of South America (1 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 25 January 2019, at 05:41 (UTC). Text is available under the ...

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