Sunday, 20 October 2013
Basics of Map Projection
Following up from my recent educational video on geodesy, we need to understand a map is a 2D representation of a 3D surface. Map projections converts the world into a small sphere and later flattened on plane surface. In that process, distortions happens (Wondering why Greenland is bigger than Africa?- Because of the map projection!). Important fact: There is no such thing as WRONG PROJECTION. It is either good or poor choice of map projection for the map use. Learn more in the video.
Happy Learning!
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Good to see Danesh. I often see people tying themselves in knots with projections and it's often overlooked by GIS users. Great introduction though.
ReplyDeleteMap Projections is a difficult topic.for me. The basics is easy. However, moving one coordinate system to another is difficult to grasp. That is why people get into knots because of this.
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