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FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN GEOGRAPHY

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Three classes (families) of projections:<br />

Developable surface as a:<br />

• Planar (Azimuthal), project the globe<br />

onto a tangent plane.<br />

• Conic, project the globe on to a cone<br />

• Cylindrical, central cylindrical vs.<br />

cylindrical equal-area<br />

Spring 2010 45

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