The Best Map Projection

This map shows where israel is located on the world map. In a presentation at the twentieth international cartographic conference in 2001, charles university professor richard. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionately correct distances from the center point, and that all points on the map are at the correct azimuth (direction) from the center point.

Map zealots are down on poor uncle mercator, but i’m here to tell you that mercator is a perfect example of how a given map projection can be hugely helpful or quite misleading depending on the situation. The latitude of jerusalem, israel is 31.771959 , and. This projection does not preserve the “look” or the “form” of places.

However, it distorts areas near the poles.

In a presentation at the twentieth international cartographic conference in 2001, charles university professor richard. First, you'll find out which projection this map is using. The projection is named after james gall and arno peters.gall described the projection in 1855 at a science convention and. The azimuthal projection is an azimuthal map projection.