There are about a dozen published variations of equidistant conic map projections. They are identical when using the same actual standard parallels, but the parallels are chosen differently. Greater ...

IT is very satisfactory to find that at the present time care is being taken that the principles of map projection are being studied as soon as the use of maps is seriously undertaken. At one time ...

Images and text are drawn from “Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies,” edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, out July 15th from Thames & Hudson. Now, this is where the problems ...

In 1677, John Adams advertised his 'new large Map of England' wherein distances could be read 'without Scale and Compass'. A little later, in 1680, somewhat as a by-product, he produced, to supplement ...