In cartography, the Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection, or Lambert cylindrical projection, is a cylindrical equal-area projection. This projection is undistorted along the equator, which is its
Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection of the world
How the Earth is projected onto a cylinder
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In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane. In a map projection, coordinates, often expres
Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection
…projection, or Lambert cylindrical projection, is a cylindrical equal-area projection. This projection is undistorted along the equator, which is its standard parallel, but distortion increases rapidly towards the poles. Like any cylindrical projection, it stretches parallels increasingly away from the equator. The…
The equal-area Mollweide projection
A two-point equidistant projection of Eurasia
Tobler hyperelliptical projection SW