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Map Projections Reference

Alphabetical List

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Cylindrical Projections Map projections developed on a cylinder Pseudocylindrical Projections Variants of map projections developed on cylinders Conic Projections Map projections developed on a cone Polyconic and Pseudoconic Projections Map projections developed on a family of cones (polyconic) and conic variants Azimuthal, Pseudoazimuthal, and Modified Azimuthal Projections Map projections that preserve azimuths from a central point and their variants UTM and UPS Systems Constructing Universal Transverse Mercator and Universal Polar Stereographic maps 3-D Globe Display Visualizing maps on a sphere

See Using Map Projections and Coordinate Systems for a general discussion of map projections, and Summary and Guide to Projections for a tabular comparison of their properties.

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Cylindrical Projections

balthsrt	Balthasart Projection
behrmann	Behrmann Projection
bsam	Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira Projection
braun	Braun Perspective Projection
cassini	Cassini Projection
cassinistd	Cassini Projection — Standard
ccylin	Central Cylindrical Projection
eqacylin	Equal Area Projection
edqcylin	Equidistant Projection
giso	Gall Isographic Projection
gortho	Gall Orthographic Projection
gstereo	Gall Stereographic Projection
lambcyln	Lambert Projection
mercator	Mercator Projection
miller	Miller Projection
pcarree	Plate Carree Projection
tranmerc	Transverse Mercator Projection
trystan	Trystan Edwards Projection
wetch	Wetch Projection

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Pseudocylindrical Projections

apianus	Apianus II Projection
collig	Collignon Projection
craster	Craster Parabolic Projection
eckert1	Eckert I Projection
eckert2	Eckert II Projection
eckert3	Eckert III Projection
eckert4	Eckert IV Projection
eckert5	Eckert V Projection
eckert6	EckertVI Projection
flatplrp	Flat-Polar Parabolic Projection
flatplrq	Flat-Polar Quartic Projection
flatplrs	Flat-Polar Sinusoidal Projection
fournier	Fournier Projection
goode	Goode Homolosine Projection
hatano	Hatano Assymmetrical Equal Area Projection
kavrsky5	Kavraisky V Projection
kavrsky6	Kavraisky VI Projection
loximuth	Loximuthal Projection
modsine	Modified Sinusoidal Projection
mollweid	Mollweide Projection
putnins5	Putnins P5 Projection
quartic	Quartic Authalic Projection
robinson	Robinson Projection
sinusoid	Sinusoidal Projection
wagner4	Wsgner IV Projection
winkel	Winkel I Projection

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Conic Projections

eqaconic	Albers Equal Area Conic Projection
eqaconicstd	Albers Equal Conic Projection — Standard
eqdconic	Equidistant Conic Projection
eqdconicstd	Equidistant Conic Projection — Standard
lambert	Lambert Conformal Conic Projection
lambertstd	Lambert Conformal Conic Projection — Standard
murdoch1	Murdoch I Conic Projection
murdoch3	Murdoch III Minimum Error Conic Projection

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Polyconic and Pseudoconic Projections

bonne	Bonne Projection
polycon	Polyconic Projection
polyconstd	Polyconic Projection — Standard
vgrint1	Van Der Grinten I Projection
werner	Werner Projection

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Azimuthal, Pseudoazimuthal, and Modified Azimuthal Projections

aitoff	Aitoff Projection
breusing	Breusing Harmonic Mean Projection
bries	Briesemeister Projection
eqaazim	Lambert Equal Area Azimuthal Projection
eqdazim	Equidistant Azimuthal Projection
gnomonic	Gnomonic Azimuthal Projection
hammer	Hammer Projection
ortho	Orthographic Azimuthal Projection
stereo	Stereographic Azimuthal Projection
vperspec	Vertical Perspective Azimuthal Projection
wiechel	Wiechel Equal Area Projection

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UTM and UPS Systems

ups	Universal Polar Stereographic (UPS) system
utm	Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) system

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3-D Globe Display

globe

Earth as sphere in 3–D graphics

Class Reference

Map Projections — Alphabetical List

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