The expressions below give the auxiliary latitudes in terms of the geodetic latitude, the semi-major axis, a, and the eccentricity, e. The forms given are, apart from notational variants, those in the standard reference for map projections, namely " Map projections — a working manual " by J. P. Snyder.

An Map projection # Azimuthal ( projections onto a plane ) | Azimuthal projection showing the Arctic Ocean and the North Pole.

Map projections are necessary for creating maps.

Map projections can be constructed to preserve one or more of these properties, though not all of them simultaneously.

A controversy in the 1980s over the Peters map motivated the American Cartographic Association ( now Cartography and Geographic Information Society ) to produce a series of booklets ( including Which Map is Best ) designed to educate the public about map projections and distortion in maps.

* Map Projections — PDF versions of numerous projections, created and released into the Public Domain by Paul B. Anderson ... member of the International Cartographic Association's Commission on Map Projections

* A Cornucopia of Map Projections, a visualization of distortion on a vast array of map projections in a single image.

* Map projections http :// www. 3dsoftware. com / Cartography / USGS / MapProjections /, archived by the Wayback Machine ( 3DSoftware ).

* Map projections, John Savard.

* Map Projections An interactive JAVA applet to study deformations ( area, distance and angle ) of map projections ( UFF. br ).

# REDIRECT Map # Map types and projections

Even in the more restrained Anglo-American academic world, a columnist of Science, a publication sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, hailed Tissot's method and encouraged his readers to study Tissot ’ s work in the hope that such a study “ will lead to the adoption of better projections than those which are at present in use .” The legacy of Tissot ’ s method is still vivid today, as suggested by the authors of Map Projections for Europe, who argue that since Tissot ’ s famous analysis regarding distortion, the only major scientific development in the metric interpretation of deformation has been Eduard Imhof's Verzerrungsgitter, or deformation grid.

Map projections

Deforestation continued to the more remote areas as a warmer climate allowed the cultivation even of upland areas. alt = Map of Wales showing the names of Celtic British tribes in their territoriesBy 4000 BP people had begun to bury, or cremate their dead in individual cists, beneath a mound of earth known as a round barrow ; sometimes with a distinctive style of finely decorated pottery – like those at Llanharry ( discovered 1929 ) and at Llandaff ( 1991 ) – that gave rise to the Early Bronze Age being described as Beaker culture.

Map of the Tokyo Imperial Palace and surrounding Gardens showing the elaborate moat systemJapanese castles often have very elaborate moats, sometimes with many moats laid out in concentric circles around the castle and a host of different patterns engineered around the landscape.

Map of the part of the region in Texas, red is the core, pink is the counties sometimes included in the region

The TI-92 Plus and many HP calculators read the code much like computers do and they have functions such as Chr $, Chr, Char, Asc, and the like in Basic ( sometimes renamed ) in addition to using somewhat modified or unmodified versions of 7-bit, 8-bit or 9-bit ISO 8859-derived character sets and other character sets running from of values of 0 to 127 ( 07F hex ), 255 ( 0FF hex ), or 511 ( 1FF hex ) -- and many of them have a tool similar to the Character Map on Windows.

alt = Map of the North Shore region of Massachusetts highlighted in yellow based on the region defined by the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, with areas sometimes included in the region on other lists highlighted in light brown.

alt = Map of the South Shore region of Massachusetts highlighted in yellow based on the region defined by the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, with areas sometimes included in the region on other lists highlighted in light brown.

Strips were sometimes known as quillets such as those on the Tithe Map of Erbistock in Denbighshire.

" Mitchell Map " of the region, from the late 1700s, used to create the Ordinance Line of 1787.

The area had been claimed by Portugal, which had included it in its " Pink Map ", but this clashed with British aspirations to create a railroad link between Cairo and Cape Town, thereby linking its colonies from the north of Africa to the very south.

Satellite, near-surface and oceanic data from detectors was used to create the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map published by the Commission for the Geological Map of the World ( CGMW ) in July 2007.

As well, in 1996 LeBlanc formed the Governor General's Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History, in 1999 partnered with the Canada Council for the Arts to create the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts, oversaw the issuance of the Governor General's Canadian History Medal for the Millennium, and established the Governor General's Millennium Edition of the Map of Canada, which was taken into space in 1999 by Julie Payette.

DOD hoped that the Movie Map would show the way to a future where computers could instantly create a three-dimensional simulation of a hostile environment at much lower cost and in less time ( see virtual reality ).

To obtain enough SNPs to create the Map, the Consortium had to fund a large re-sequencing project to discover millions of additional SNPs.

The Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity ( a New York City Department of Environmental Protection predecessor agency ) commissioned the Cartographic Survey Force of the Works Progress Administration to create the magnificent Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System and watershed that you see in this room.

As well as earning many favourable reviews from reviewers such as PCGamer and GameSpy ( see Reception section ), the game continues to boast a large community, who edit and create various material through the in-game Map Editor / Scenario Creator.

In order to create the rarefied atmosphere on Mars, the Map of Mars was built to an altitude above the main Ringworld surface creating a cavity.

The first known appearance of the arms is therefore on John Speed ’ s Map of Oxfordshire in 1605 with a blue field.

Map by Barnardo de Miera, 1778, first appearance of Buenaventura River, as a faulty combination of Green River ( Utah ) | Green River and Sevier River

Henderson's appearance during this segment became so popular that it led to the creation of the Late Show CBS Mailbag 2002 Biff Henderson's Map Across America Summer Tour.

Google Map of Chisolm, Maine

* Historical Map of Columbia, Maine

* Map of Density of Wolffish in Gulf of Maine Region and Georges Bank Area

The Portland Campus is home to the Edmund Muskie School of Public Service along with the Bio Sciences Research Institute and the University of Maine School of Law, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Osher Map Library.

* Map of Maine from Stephen King's official website

* Map of ice houses along the Kennebec River, 1891, Maine Memory Network

Map of the Gulf of Maine ; Georges Bank is the light blue region in the bottom center of the image.

Map of the United Kingdom showing its Exclusive Economic Zone and applicable jurisdictions ; the territorial sea extends to no more than twelve nautical miles ( 22 km ) from land.

Additionally, an old, undated Hagstrom Map from the late 1940s indicates that the Turnpike name extends as far west as the Queens line.