short announcement: The Mercator Puzzle
A lot of articles here at Digital Geography deal with maps and projections. You may have wondered how wrong the different map projections are or let’s say, what…
Tag: projection
Create your own worldmap: worldmapgenerator.com
The “Viewpoints” project explores the aesthetic question whether there is a parameter-based method for generating unconventional maps of the world that do justice to the thematic context in…
Digital Geomorphology
Maps are still the main technique to show geomorphological surfaces on different spatial scales. Step by step new technologies try to improve this approach. In this german article…
projections, ellipsoids/spheroids, coordinate systems, datum and all this crazy cartographic stuff.
We will go straight to the main part of the problem:how to communicate, where you are. Sometimes it is as easy as “one, two, three” but most likely…
Coordinate Systems and “on the fly projection”
Most of you readers has probably come to a point where you asked yourself “WTF, what is this?”. And doing so by thinking and carrying about projections is…