Map Projections

Map Projections is a class of mathematical transformations that systematically convert locations on the curved surface of the Earth (or another reference spheroid/ellipsoid) to positions on a plane, in order to represent geographic space while controlling and characterizing the resulting distortions of distance, area, shape, or direction.

215

Publications

8.8K

Citations

266

Authors

127

Institutions

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2017–2026

Variants

Map Projection

Parents

CartographyGeographic Information ScienceGeomaticsGeospatial VisualizationSurveying

Children

Area DistortionAzimuthal ProjectionsCentral MeridianCompromise ProjectionsConformal ProjectionsConic ProjectionsDatum DependenceDirection PreservationDistance DistortionEllipsoid Dependence

Publications

215

Map projections: A working manual

John P. Snyder · USGS professional paper · 1987 · 1.6K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geography +14

Representations of celestial coordinates in FITS

M. R. Calabretta, E. W. Greisen · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2002 · 431 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Astrophysics +10

Flattening the earth: two thousand years of map projections

Choice Reviews Online · 1994 · 369 citations

Social Sciences, Geography, Geoinformatics +10

Thirty Five Years of Computer Cartograms

Waldo Tobler · Annals of the Association of American Geographers · 2004 · 247 citations

Social Sciences, Geography, Geoinformatics +13

CO-ORDINATE SYSTEMS AND MAP PROJECTIONS

J. E. Jackson, Dick Mason, James R. Smith et al. · Survey Review · 1974 · 199 citations

Natural Sciences, Geoinformatics, Mathematics +12

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Authors

266

JP
John P. Snyder
Stanford University, United States
20 publications · 2.3K citations
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WT
Waldo Tobler
University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
10 publications · 668 citations
10
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BJ
Bernhard Jenny
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
10 publications · 336 citations
10
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TP
Tom Patterson
National Park Service, United States
6 publications · 177 citations
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BŠ
Bojan Šavrič
Oregon State University, United States
6 publications · 217 citations
6
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Institutions

127

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Venues

The American Cartographer
18 publications · 467 citations
16
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Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization
13 publications · 312 citations
12
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Cartography and Geographic Information Science
11 publications · 223 citations
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Annals of the Association of American Geographers
10 publications · 598 citations
10
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Geographical Review
10 publications · 518 citations
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