Cartographers have long grappled with the impossibility of portraying the earth in two dimensions. To solve this problem, mapmakers have created map projections

This book offers a much-needed critical approach to the intelligent use of the wide variety of map projections that are rapidly and inexpensively available toda

A revised and expanded new edition of the definitive English work on map projections. The revisions take into account the huge advances in geometrical geodesy w

Map projection concerns the science of mathematical cartography, the techniques by which the Earth's dimensions, shape and features are translated in map form,