ppt课件-map projections- pleasanton unified school district（地图投影,而统一的学区）.pptVIP

Map Projections An important consideration in mapping our world Issues and Limitations Map projections are attempts to portray the surface of the earth or a portion of the earth on a flat surface. Some distortions of different types always result from this process. Some projections minimize distortions in some of these properties at the expense of maximizing errors in others. Some projections are attempts to only moderately distort all of these properties. Distortion Types Conformality When the scale of a map at any point is the same in any direction, the projection is conformal. Meridia