Miller cylindrical projection
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The Miller cylindrical projection is a modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller (1897-1979) in 1942. The parallels of latitude are scaled by a factor of 2/5, projected according to Mercator, and then the result is multiplied by 5/4 to retain scale along the equator.[1] Hence:
where λ is the longitude from the central meridian of the projection, and φ is the latitude.
[edit] References
- ^ Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections, John P. Snyder, 1993, pp. 179, 183, ISBN 0-226-76747-7.
[edit] External links
- Table of examples and properties of all common projections, from radicalcartography.net
- An interactive Java Applet to study the metric deformations of the Miller Projection.
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