GEOGRAPHY AND THE PROPERTIES OF SURFACES. PLANE GLOBE PROJECTION. A LINNEAN SYSTEM OF MAP PROJECTION

Abstract

The work is an edited translation of Maurer's Ebene Kugelbilder, Berlin, 1935. It contains an exhaustive classification system for map projection and a catalogue of 237 named projections arranged in classes and various subclasses on the basis of such characteristics as properties (conformality, equivalence, etc.), the appearance of the latitude-longitude grid, and the form of the equations (linear, algebraic transcendental, etc.). It is believed that this translation will help fill a very serious gap in the literature of English-speaking geographers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 19, 1968
Accession Number
AD0675812

Entities

People

  • Hans. Maurer
  • William Warntz

Organizations

  • Harvard University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Base Lines
  • Cartography
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Geography
  • Geometric Forms
  • Geometry
  • Grids
  • Map Projection
  • Navigation
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Position Finding
  • Shape
  • South America
  • Southern Hemisphere
  • Two Dimensional

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Geodesy
  • Library and Information Science