Cylindrical Projections
Introduction
In the equatorial (the most common, and frequently the only useful) aspect of all cylindrical projections: ...
Cylindrical Projections
Cylindrical Equal Area
Cylindrical Equal-Area projections have straight meridians and parallels, the meridians are equally spaced, the parallels unequally spaced.
Other Cylindrical projections Pseudo-cylindrical projections are projections in which the parallels are represented by parallel straight lines, and the meridians by curves.
Cylindrical Projections
I. What is a cylindrical projection?
A cylindrical projection can be imagined in its simplest form as a that has been wrapped around a globe at the equator.
Cylindrical Projections
The Nomenclature and Classification of Map Projections Empire Survey Review No. 51, Vol VII January 1944 Pages 190-200 ; L.P. Lee, Lands Survey Department, Wellington, N.Z.
Matching the Map Projection to the Need ...
Cylindrical Projections
This projection is based on the concept of the 'piece of paper' being rolled into a cylinder and touching the Earth on a circular line. The cylinder is usually positioned over the Equator, but this is not essential.
Cylindrical projections map the whole Earth as a finite rectangle, except in the first two cases, where the rectangle stretches infinitely tall while retaining constant width.
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Cylindrical projections - A class of map projection that projects part of the globe onto a cylinder-shaped surface.
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With conical and cylindrical projections, the axis of these shapes usually corresponds to the axis of the spheroid (Earth); the exception is the oblique case.
For example, normal cylindrical projections are good for maps which are of greater extent east-west than north-south and in equatorial regions, while conic projections are better in mid-latitudes; ...
The origin of this terminology lies in the idea of literally "projecting" the earth's surface onto some other surface by means of an imaginary light source. For specific examples, see azimuthal projections, cylindrical projections, ...
such as the grid of a map, on which part or all of the globe or another spherical surface is represented as a plane surface. The result may have distortion in distance, area, orientation and/or scale. See Conformal, Conic and Cylindrical Projections.
 See also: Map, Projection, Cylindrical Projection, Map Projection, Parallel
  
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