Friday, February 26, 2016

Wikipedia picture of the day for February 27

Cylindrical equal-area projection

The cylindrical equal-area projection is a family of cylindrical, equal area map projections including the Gall–Peters, Behrmann and Lambert projections. Cylindrical projections stretch distances east-west as a function of latitude; as such, cylindrical equal-area projections have a north-south compression precisely the reciprocal of east-west stretching. The various specializations of this projection differ only in the ratio of the vertical to horizontal axis.

Map: Strebe, using Geocart



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