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Map projection: Applications & Art

In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane. In a map projection, coordinates, often expressed as latitude and longitude, of locations from the surface of the globe are transformed to coordinates on a plane. Projection is a necessary step in…

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Map projection topic overview

The analysis highlights Applications and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Map projection.

Related topics
153
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
160
Extracted relationships
130
Concept neighborhoods
75
Bridge connections
160

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 42 topics
Projections by preservation of a metric property · 35 topics
Projections by surface · 29 topics
Design and construction · 25 topics
Metric properties of maps · 15 topics
Classification · 4 topics
Suitability of projections for application · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Metric properties of maps

Design and construction

Classification

Projections by surface

Projections by preservation of a metric property

Suitability of projections for application

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Map projection connects Entity context

The extracted context around Map projection shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Map projection → An Album, Cartographic Projections Library, Color, Compare Map Projections, Cornucopia, Esri, EuropePROJ, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Geometric, Henry Bottomley, Java, John, KartoWeb, Map Projections, MapProjections, MapRef, Mapthematics, MathWorld, MB, Melita Kennedy Another extracted example is Map projection → Albers, Another, Earth, Earth's, Hence, In, Many, Mercator, One, Some, The. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Map projection

Top relations

related to External links · 39
Map projection → An Album, Cartographic Projections Library, Color, Compare Map Projections, Cornucopia, Esri, EuropePROJ, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Geometric, Henry Bottomley, Java, John, KartoWeb, Map Projections, MapProjections, MapRef, Mapthematics, MathWorld, MB, Melita Kennedy
related to Classification · 11
Map projection → Albers, Another, Earth, Earth's, Hence, In, Many, Mercator, One, Some, The
related to Suitability of projections for application · 11
Map projection → Due, For, Mercator, Modern, Mollweide, Reference, Robinson, Something, The, Thus, Winkel
related to Conformal · 10
Map projection → An, Any, Conformal, Earth, In, Mercator, MercatorStereographic, Rhumb, RoussilheLambert, These
see also · 10
Map projection → Application, Cartesian, Drawings, EarthSpherical, Geodetic, GIS, Map, Reference, System, Video
related to Distortion · 9
Map projection → By, Carl Friedrich Gauss's Theorema, Earth, Egregium, For, Nicolas Tissot, Since, The, Tissot's
related to Design and construction · 8
Map projection → Because, Cartesian, Earth, Earth's, In, Selection, The, Transformation
related to Projections by surface · 8
Map projection → As, For, However, If, Lee, Lee's, Such, The
related to Notable lines · 4
Map projection → If, Moving, Tangent, The
related to Polyhedral · 3
Map projection → Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion, Polyhedral, The

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

projection projections map surface plane scale parallels earth maps distance point globe cylindrical distortion latitude perspective lines sphere shape conformal

Map projection relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 130 structured relationships around Map projection. Examples in this analysis include Map projection → is a → Mercator projection and Map projection → is a → representation of one of those surfaces on a plane. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Map projectionis aMercator projection0.90text
Map projectionis arepresentation of one of those surfaces on a plane0.90text
asteroids often have irregular shapesinstance ofwhereas small objects0.80text
the Sinusoidal projectioninstance ofequal-area projections0.80text
the Gallinstance ofequal-area projections0.80text
a cylinder or coneinstance ofOne way of describing a projection is first to project from the Earth's surface to a developable surface0.80text
and then to unroll the surface into a planeinstance ofOne way of describing a projection is first to project from the Earth's surface to a developable surface0.80text
the azimuthal equidistant projectioninstance ofThis is the defining characteristic of an equidistant projection0.80text
world atlasesinstance ofSpherical models are useful for small-scale maps0.80text
globesinstance ofSpherical models are useful for small-scale maps0.80text
since the error at that scale is not usually noticeable or important enough to justify using the more complicated ellipsoidinstance ofSpherical models are useful for small-scale maps0.80text
distanceinstance ofa geoidal model would change the characterization of important properties0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Map projection bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Projections, Projection and Cylindrical. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Map projection
    • Projections
    • Projection
    • Cylindrical
    • Point
    • Surface
    • Conformal
    • Earth
    • Distance
    • Distortion
    • Parallels
    • Area
    • Globe
  • map projection
    • Projections
    • Projection
    • Cylindrical
    • One
    • Point
    • Surface
    • Area
    • Earth
    • Conformal
    • Distance
    • Equal-area
    • Distortion
  • globe
    • Surface
    • Developable
    • Onto
    • Line
    • Plane
    • Map
    • Parallels
    • Meridian
    • Properties
    • Tangent
    • One
    • Lines
  • plane
    • Surface
    • Cylinder
    • Developable
    • Onto
    • Projection
    • Lines
    • Point
    • Azimuthal
    • Tangent
    • Earth
    • Line
    • Sphere
  • perspective projections
    • Point
    • Earth
    • Tangent
    • Cylindrical
    • Distance
    • Used
    • Distortion
    • World
    • Maps
    • Azimuthal
    • Lines
    • Projection
  • conformal
    • Distance
    • Area
    • Equal-area
    • Conic
    • Map
    • Lines
    • Scale
    • Azimuthal
    • Maps
    • Point
    • Properties
    • Projection
  • equal-area projections
    • Area
    • Azimuthal
    • Conic
    • Cylindrical
    • Distance
    • Maps
    • Used
    • Distortion
    • Projection
    • World
    • Parallels
    • Lines
  • sinusoidal projection
    • Projections
    • Cylindrical
    • One
    • Area
    • Earth
    • Equal-area
    • Surface
    • Plane
    • Used
    • Maps
    • Conformal
    • Mercator

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Map projection, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Map projection with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Map projection — Overview · splits 118 ⟂ 43
Map projection — Projections by preservation of a metric property · splits 125 ⟂ 36
Map projection — Projections by surface · splits 131 ⟂ 30
Map projection — Design and construction · splits 135 ⟂ 26
Map projection — Metric properties of maps · splits 145 ⟂ 16
Map projection — Classification · splits 156 ⟂ 5
Map projection — Suitability of projections for application · splits 157 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Map projection

Nodes161
Edges160
Triples130
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012422
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Map projection to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Applications & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Map projection · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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