Different Types Of World Map Projections

The basic steps of creating a map projection are: The following groups of projections have been made according to the quality they preserve: * the sheet will have the tangent point as the centre of the circular map, where meridians passing through the centre are straight line and the parallels are seen as concentric circle.

Map projections preserve some of the properties of the sphere at the expense of others, producing maps that appear to depict the world in different ways. Gnomonic projection, stereographic projection and orthographic projection. All projections distort at least one of the following:

The projection is conformal in that shapes are well preserved for a considerable extent near to the standard parallels.

The number of different maps you can create is quite large and will give you a different and often unusual perspective on the world. * it can be visualized as a flat sheet of paper tangent to any point on the globe. For world maps the shapes are extremely distorted away from standard parallels. If you choose the cylindrical projections (mercator, equirectangular, gall peters) you will see some interesting distortions when you focus on different countries or regions.