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Bibliography:
Albers Equal Area Miller Cylindrical Lecture Notes
Conic; Equal Area Cylindrical; N/A Furuti, Carlos A. 1997.
Useful for large countries or areas that are mainly Used in world maps in American atlases. Resem-
Cartographical Map
east-west and require equal area representation. bles the Mercator projection by with less distortion
Projections. http://ww-
of area and scale.
w.progonos.com/furuti/-
Azimuthal Equidistant Polyconic MapProj/Normal/TOC/-
Azimuthal; Equidistant Conic; N/A cartTOC.html
Useful to show distances from center point of Used for large-scale mapping of the United States
projection. Used to show polar regions and other by the USGS until the 1950s. Snyder, John P. 1987.
large-scale mapping. Map Projections: A
Working Manual.
Equidistant Conic Robinson http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/-
Conic; Equidistant Cylindrical; N/A publication/pp1395
The most commonly used projection in atlases for Commonly used for world maps.
small countries. Snyder, John P. and
Philip M. Voxland. 1989.
Lambert Conformal Conic Sinusoidal An Album of Map
Cylindrical; Equal Area Projections. http://-
Conic; Conformal
Used for atlas maps of South America and Africa. pubs.usgs.gov/p-
One of the most widely used projections for
N large-scale mapping of a country of region that is
mainly east-west in extent.
Occasionally used for world maps. p/1453/report.pdf