NOAA uses the polyconic projection for some of its charts of the Great Lakes, at both large and small scales.
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As a specific projection, the American polyconic projection is conceptualized as " rolling " a cone tangent to the Earth at all parallels of latitude, instead of a single cone as in a normal conic projection.
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The "'American Polyconic projection "'is a map projection conceptualized as " rolling " a separate cone tangent to the Earth at each parallel of latitude, rather than a single cone as in a normal conic projection.
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a conic projection of a map having distances between meridians equal to those distances on a globe