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Cartography
Map Projections
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Geography
Undergraduate 3
05/20/2013
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Mercator (conformal, true direction)
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Mollweide (equal area)
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Aitoff (equidistant)
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Albers equal area (equal area)
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Azimuthal equidistant (neither conformal nor equal area)
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Behrmann (equal area)
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Bonne (equal area)
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Buckminster fuller (neither conformal nor equal area)
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Eckert family (2, 4, 6 are equal area)
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Equidistant conic (equidistant, compromise)
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Flat Polar Quartic (equal area)
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Gall-Peters (equal area)
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Gnomonic (azimuthal, neither equivalent nor conformal)
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Goode (equal area)
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Hobo-Dyer (equal area)
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Lambert's conic conformal (conformal)
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Miller (compromise)
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Orthographic (azimuthal, neither conformal nor equivalent)
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Peters (equal area)
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Plate Carrée (compromise, equirectangular)
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Polar stereographic (conformal, azimuthal)
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Robinson (compromise)
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Sinuisoidal (equal area)
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Van der Grinten (compromise)
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Winkel (compromise)
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