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Noun Concept
Categories: Cartography, Descriptive geometry, Infographics, Articles with short description, Map projections
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map projection  azimuthal projection  cartographic projection  Cartographic projections  central meridian
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A projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude WordNet 3.0
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A projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane. Wikipedia
Reducing the surface of a three-dimensional planet to a flat map Wikipedia Disambiguation
Representation of the surface of a sphere or ellipsoid onto a plane map Wikidata
Any systematic method of transforming the spherical representation of parallels, meridians and geographic features of the Earth's surface to a nonspherical surface, usually a plane. Wiktionary
Systematic method. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
projection
projection
HAS KIND
conformal projection
conic projection
equal-area projection
Mercator projection
transverse Mercator projection
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HAS INSTANCE
homolosine projection
azimuthal equidistant projection
Tobler hyperelliptical projection
Guyou hemisphere-in-a-square projection
Adams hemisphere-in-a-square projection
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WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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map projection
Wikipedia
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map projection
Wikidata
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map projection
Wiktionary
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map projection
Wikipedia Redirections
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azimuthal projection, cartographic projection, Cartographic projections, central meridian (map projections), Conic projector, coniform projection, cylindrical map projection, cylindrical projection, equal-area cylindrical projection, Equal Area Cylindrical, Equidistant map projection, equidistant projection, Map Projection, map projections, near-sided perspective projection, Pseudo-conic projection, Pseudo-cylindrical projection, pseudoconic, Pseudoconical projection, pseudocylindrical, pseudocylindrical map projection, Pseudocylindrical projection, retroazimuthal projection, Spatial projection, spherical projection, transverse aspect, World projection
Wikidata Alias
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cartographic projection, projection

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