Map projection

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world. One of the biggest misconceptions about Africa is its size. Out of the three most commonly used maps, two of them distort the true size of Africa. The Robinson Projection is normally used in secondary education. The Mercator Projection is the most commonly used map in education in this country and many others. This map greatly under-represents the true size of Africa. Looking at this map, the continent of Africa and the country of Greenland appear to be similar in size. The two are…

Map is an important thing in our daily life today. We can not only using maps to figure out where the place is, but also just like the professor said in the video “it’s an amazing way to figuring out the history” . I do agree this statement because before Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the world, people do not realize that Earth is a ball not flat. When people read the map, then they can learn the history of the “Age of Discovery” in the 16th cemetery. Maps may be very different at the…

The Transverse Mercator Projections is a transverse cylindrical conformal projection also known as the Gauss-Kruger, it is one of the well-known projections in the world for its variation of the Mercator projections (Chang, 2010). The Transverse Mercator Projection (TMS) is similar to the Mercator projection which uses Standard Parallel whereas TMS uses the Standard Meridian. This means that it is longitudinal in the meridians not in the Equator, making it to be conformal and not preserving a…

are generally determined by people rather than nature. Such maps are called political maps. Maps may also focus on the geography of the area and will often have shaded relief to show the mountains and valleys. Typical colors are blues, greens and browns. Many rivers, mountains and lake features are usually labeled. These maps are called physical maps. Thematic maps show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area. These maps portray physical, social, political, cultural,…

acceleration of a sphere’s response to gravity and a value predicted from a model (Reference). Therefore, a positive abnormality unveils a lower value than predicted- and a negative model would be on the opposite side of that spectrum when observing a map. The anomaly is the outcome that causes deviation from the “ideal gravity model” (Reference). Sedimentary basins are large low-lying areas that are dependent on lithospheric flexure. They’re formed due to convergent, divergent and transform…

motor and sensory topographic organization through the use of a homunculus. The homunculus in the motor system figure is correct in both pathways due its somatosensory nature. There is evidence though that while this map technically is correct in broad terms, the M1 somatotopic map is much more complex and non-linear then this. It was originally thought that the motor system had sequential operations that were encoded at each step by a different neuronal population and its only role was that of…

In 1812 railroad technology and steam engine technology collided changing the known world which helped form the world we know today. The Middleton Railway in Leeds, United Kingdom was the first to use a steam powered locomotive to generate revenue and has been in operaton ever since. The creation of the railroad and how it has connected the world has left it never the same again (railserve.com, n.d.). The railroad soon came to America in 1820 and began to immediately impact society. The “golden…

on two main processes, image plane projection and image stitching. When two adjacent images are captured in different planes it is difficult to get a correlated part from both adjacent images to stitch them together unless one of the images has to be projected from its image plane to the image plane of the adjacent image [7]. 2.7.1.1 2-D Spatial…

start to making their own map for different use. As we all know, map-making costs very high and involves a complicated process. However, why do many government and institution are still willing to invest such huge resources to making a map? The reason is that it is very valuable as a way of recording and storing information, a means of analyzing locational distributions and spatial patterns and a method of presenting information and communicating findings. In addition, a map can convey spatial…