[Proj] Natural Earth projection
OvV_HN
ovv at hetnet.nl
Mon Mar 5 10:37:56 EST 2012
In reply to:
Gerald I. Evenden geraldi.evenden at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 09:56:52 EST 2012
Perhaps a knee jerk reaction ..............
An issue that I do not remember seeing discussed with the projection is its
property of being equal area. I feel that for general thematic mapping it
is far more important for a map to be equal area to help the viewer have a
better "feel" of the information presented.
Reply:
The natural earth projection is neither conformal nor equal area.
This is discussed in the Savric paper mentioned earlier.
In this paper we can also find a discussion of the distortion.
Oscar van Vlijmen
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