There are about a dozen published variations of equidistant conic map projections. They are identical when using the same actual standard parallels, but the parallels are chosen differently. Greater ...

IT is very satisfactory to find that at the present time care is being taken that the principles of map projection are being studied as soon as the use of maps is seriously undertaken. At one time ...

In 1677, John Adams advertised his 'new large Map of England' wherein distances could be read 'without Scale and Compass'. A little later, in 1680, somewhat as a by-product, he produced, to supplement ...

THIS wall map is constructed on a conical projection on a scale of 1: 3,200,000, or 50.5 miles to an inch. It is provided with an inset map of the Philippines on a scale of 1: 7,500,000. The ...