Sentence examples for map projection from inspiring English sources

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map projection

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Any systematic method of transforming the spherical representation of parallels, meridians and geographic features of the Earth's surface to a nonspherical surface, usually a plane

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The image produced by this ray casting process on the spherical surface will be mapped to a planar image using a map projection transformation, which projects each latitude longitude grid point on the spherical surface into a location on a planar image.

Mercator projection, type of map projection introduced in 1569 by Gerardus Mercator.

The first volume discussed basic principles and dealt with map projection and globe construction.

The latter stands high in the S by our map times but is squashed by our map projection.

Eventually Mr. McLaughlin's idea for a map projection of the continents, with the United States front and center on the vertical axis, won out.

But this method produces distortion, so a map projection today may be created using any of a number of mathematical methods.

A note from Neil Freeman: When I say the maps are in the same scale, each is drawn in a custom Transverse Mercator map projection centred on each system.

It uses a 3D map projection, which isn't necessarily the best way to present this sort of information in a way that is easy to use, but it is sort of fun.

He once told his friend and biographer Robert W. Marks, "I did not set out to design a house that hung from a pole, or to manufacture a new type of automobile, invent a new system of map projection, develop geodesic domes or Energetic Geometry.

Sinusoidal map projection.

Map projection is Hammer-Aitoff.

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