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Which type of map projection is best for displaying a compact area such as Australia?
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of a Mercator projection and of an equal area projection?
money
What kind of map projection would you use to show the size of various land masses?
Equal-Area projection
What projection map shows size of various land masses?
The equal-area projection shows size of various land masses.
What is the most used projection map?
Discounting the Mercator, which cartographers tend to HATE but is ubiquitous anyway... Probably the Lambert Conformal Conic projection, or the Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area projection (used by the US National Atlas).
What kind of map does a polar projection map show?
Polar Area
Which north America projection does not distort area?
eckert iv projection
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a Mercator projection and of an equal area projection?
money
Projection suitable for mapping a small area?
The Cylindrical projection should be the basis for a large rectangular area and a Conic projection for a triangular area.Therefore use a circular/Azimuthal for a small area or even conic.
In mapping what is the difference between mercator projection and an equal area projection?
the difference between mercator projection and equal projection is 250km apart from each other
How does a mercator map misrepresent the world?
The Mercator map projection does not represent area correctly. the equatorial regions are relatively small and the polar regions relatively large (if Greenland looks larger than Australia then the area proportions are wrong Australia has more than three times the surface area of Greenland).
Does equal area projection has distortion?
yes
What is an Eckert IV projection?
It is an equal area projection. that has less shape distortion near the equator and the poles compared to other equal area projections.
What kind of map projection would you use to show the size of various land masses?
Equal-Area projection
What map projection is an elliptical equal-area projection that distorts shapes near the edges?
Mollweide Projection is an elliptical equal-area projection, designed in 1805 by German mathematician Carl B Mollweide, represents the size of landforms quite accurately, but distorts shapes near the edges.
Why did people develop a variety of maps for studying and displaying information about earth?
The Earth is a sphere. Maps are flat. Therefore when you try and make a representation of a sphere (the Earth) as a flat map, you introduce some distortions. The process of making a flat map from a sphere is called projection and there are a number of different projections that you can use, each with different distortions (e.g. an equal area projection, a Mercator projection etc). Therefore you need a variety of maps (projections) depending on what you want to use the map for.
What is the advantage of an equal-area projection?
do be so ambiguous.
What is the advantage of an equal area projection?
do be so ambiguous.
