| Abstract: | After decades of using only one map projection, the Polyconic, for its mapping program, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) now uses sixteen of the more comnon map projections for its published maps. For larger scale maps, including topographic quadrangles and the State Base Map Series, conformal projections such as the Transverse Mercator and the Lambert Conformal Conic are used. On these, the shapes of small areas are shown correctly, but scale is correct only along one or two lines. Equal-area projections, especially the Albers Equal-Area Conic, and equidistant projections which have correct scale along many lines appear in the National Atlas. Other projections, such as the Miller Cylindrical and the Van der Grinten, are chosen occasionally for convenience, sometimes making use of existing base maps prepared by others. Some projections treat the Earth only as a sphere, others as either ellipsoid or sphere.
The USGS has also conceived and designed several new projections, icluding the
Space Oblique Mercator, the first map projection designed to permit mapping of the Earth continuously from a satellite with low distortion. The mapping of extraterrestrial bodies has resulted in the use of standard projections in completely new settings.
With increased computerization, it is important to realize that rectangular coordinates for all these projections may be mathematically calculated with formulas which would have seemed too complicated in the past, but which now may be programed routinely, if clearly delineated with numerical examples. A discussion of appearance, usage, and history is given together with both forward and inverse equations for each projection involved. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
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| Citation Author: | Snyder, John Parr |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | xiv, 313 p. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Government Printing Office |
| Citation Series: | Bulletin |
| Citation Series Code: | B |
| Citation Series Number: | 1532 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Map Projections Used by the U.S. Geological Survey; 1982; B; 1532; Snyder, John Parr |
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| Citation Year: | 1982 |
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| Text: | Map Projections Used by the U.S. Geological Survey; 1982; B; 1532; Snyder, John Parr |
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| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1532/report.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Government Printing Office |
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