Interactive Projections
Published Saturday, August 19, 2006 by CCAer | E-mail this post
Penn State Online GIS Education and the
Dutton e-Education Institute have
put together a map that the user can reproject to 10 different projections. It is a site that would primarily be of interest to those who don’t have access to a GIS. Projections include Plate Carree (or geographic), Mercator, Transverse Mercator, Cylindrical Equal Area, Robinson, Lambert conformal Conic, Albers Equal Area Conic, Azimuthal Stereographic, Azimuthal Equidistant and Azimuthal Orthographic. The site allows users to specify the parameters of each projection, display distortion ellipses and plot and label a location on the map. The site makes use of
ArcIMS to display the maps.
(Update: My apologies for failing to include
the link!)
No Peter's Projection though!