Peters's chosen projection suffers extreme distortion in the polar regions, as any cylindrical projection must, and its distortion along the equator is considerable.
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The various cylindrical projections are distinguished from each other solely by their north-south stretching ( where latitude is given by " ? " ):
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The only cylindrical projections that preserve area have a north-south compression precisely the reciprocal of east-west stretching ( Lambert cylindrical equal-area ).
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:: : : : : : : : Well, but the cylindrical projection you described is not the same as the one Rickey and Tuchinsky described.
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Normal cylindrical projections map the whole Earth as a finite rectangle, except in the first two cases, where the rectangle stretches infinitely tall while retaining constant width.
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The "'Miller cylindrical projection "'is a modified Mercator projection proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller ( 1897 & ndash; 1979 ) in 1942.
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The following examples illustrate three normal cylindrical projections and in each case the variation of scale with position and direction is illustrated by the use of Tissot's indicatrix.
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As with any cylindrical projection, the construction can be generalized by positioning the cylinder to be tangent to a great circle of the globe that is not the equator.
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Most modern atlases no longer use the Mercator projection for world maps or for areas distant from the equator, preferring other cylindrical projections, or forms of equal-area projection.
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In " Dimetrodon ", the neural spines develop into long, narrow, cylindrical projections that support a tall vertical dorsal sail that ends near the base of the tail.
