Gallery of Map Projections

Map Projection Drawings by Paul B. Anderson

324 public domain drawings by Paul Bryan Anderson, illustrating cartographic map projections of the Earth. The following links open each drawing as a PDF file in a new browser window.

Map projections are listed in categories according to Snyder classification.

  1. Airy Minimum-error Azimuthal
  2. Aitoff projection
  3. Aitoff projection (Interrupted for Continental Unities)
  4. Azimuthal Equidistant projection
  5. Azimuthal Equidistant projection (Polar Aspect)
  6. Berghaus Star
  7. Bomford's projection
  8. Breusing Geometric Mean
  9. Breusing Harmonic Mean
  10. Briesemeister projection
  11. Chamberlin Trimetric projection
  12. Clarke's Twilight Perspective projection
  13. Craig's Mecca Map
  14. Da Vinci Octant
  15. Eckert-Greifendorff
  16. Ginzburg TsNIIGAiK (Polar Aspect)
  17. Gnomonic projection
  18. Hägerstrand Logarithmic Azimuthal projection
  19. Hammer-Aitoff projection
  20. Hammer-Aitoff projection (Oblique Aspect)
  21. Hammer Retroazimuthal projection
  22. Lambert Azimuthal Equal-area
  23. Land-Sea Hemispheres
  24. Littrow projection (or Weir Azimuth Diagram)
  25. Littrow-Lagrange projection
  26. Maurer SNo. 196 (Double Retroazimuthal) projection
  27. [O. M.] Miller Oblated (or Prolated) Stereographic projection
  28. Nordic projection
  29. Orthographic projection
  30. Petermann Star
  31. Raisz Star
  32. Snyder's 'Magnifying-Glass' Azimuthal Equal-area projection
  33. Snyder's 'Magnifying-Glass' Azimuthal Equidistant projection
  34. Snyder's 'Magnifying-Glass' Tapered Azimuthal Equidistant projection
  35. Snyder's Oblated Equal-area projection
  36. Snyder's Rectangular 'Magnifying-Glass' Tapered Azimuthal Equidistant projection
  37. Snyder's Tilted Perspective projection
  38. Spilhaus 'Oceans' Variation
  39. Stereographic projection
  40. Two Point Azimuthal projection
  41. Two Point Equidistant projection
  42. Urmayev 2 projection
  43. Vertical Perspective
  44. Wagner VII (Hammer-Wagner) projection
  45. Wagner VIII projection
  46. Wagner IX (Aitoff-Wagner)
  47. Wiechel projection
  48. Winkel's Oikumene (Inhabited World) Map
  49. Winkel Tripel
  50. Winkel Tripel (Bartholomew)

Conics

  1. Albers Equal-area Conic
  2. Bipolar Oblique Conic
  3. Braun Stereographic Conic
  4. De L'Isle Equidistant Conic
  5. Euler Equidistant Conic
  6. Herschel Conic
  7. Kavrayskiy 4 Conic
  8. Krasovskiy 1 Conic
  9. Lambert Conformal Conic
  10. Lambert Equal-area Conic
  11. Mendeleev Equidistant Conic
  12. Murdoch 1 (Equidistant Conic)
  13. Perspective Conic
  14. Ptolemy 1
  15. Schjerning 1 (Equidistant Conic)
  16. Tissot Equal-area Conic
  17. Vitkovskiy 1 (Equidistant Conic)

Cylindricals

  1. Arden-Close Cylindrical
  2. Arden-Close Novelty projection (Eastern Hemisphere)
  3. Arden-Close Novelty projection (World)
  4. Arden-Close Novelty projection (World - Lambda/2)
  5. Balthasart Projection
  6. Behrmann Projection
  7. Botley Oblique Plate Carrée Projection
  8. Braun Perspective Cylindrical
  9. Braun Stereographic Cylindrical
  10. BSAM - Bol'shoy sovetskiy atlas mira (or Kamenetskiy 2) projection
  11. Cassini projection
  12. Central Cylindrical
  13. Plate Carrée (or Equirectangular) projection
  14. Gall Isographic
  15. Gall Orthographic (or Gall-Peters)
  16. Gall Stereographic
  17. Gauss-Krüger projection
  18. Hotine projection
  19. Kamenetskiy 1
  20. Kharchenko-Shabanova projection
  21. Lambert Cylindrical Equal-area
  22. Lambert Transverse Cylindrical Equal-area
  23. Lambert Transverse Mercator
  24. Rand McNally Cosmopolitan Series
  25. Mercator projection
  26. Oblique Mercator
  27. [O. M.] Miller Cylindrical
  28. [O. M.] Miller 2
  29. [O. M.] Miller Modified Gall
  30. [O. M.] Miller Perspective Compromise
  31. Pavlov projection
  32. [R.] Miller 1
  33. [R.] Miller 2
  34. [R.] Miller 3
  35. Snyder's Satellite-tracking Cylindrical
  36. Tobler's variant 1 of [O. M.] Miller Cylindrical
  37. Tobler's variant 2 of [O. M.] Miller Cylindrical
  38. Tobler's Equal-area World in a Square
  39. Trystan_Edwards projection
  40. Trystan_Edwards (Snyder's Correction)
  41. Urmayev II Cylindrical
  42. Urmayev III Cylindrical
  43. Wetch projection

Miscellaneous

  1. Adams Conformal projection (World in an Ellipse)
  2. Adams Conformal projection (World in a Rectangle)
  3. Adams Rhombic projection (Western Hemisphere in a Square)
  4. Adams Rhombic projection (Western Hemisphere, Poles in 60 Deg Angles)
  5. Adams Rhombic projection (Western Hemisphere, Poles in 120 Deg Angles)
  6. Adams Rhombic projection (World, Poles in 120 Deg Angles)
  7. Adams Rhombic projection (World in a Regular Hexagon)
  8. Adams Rhombic projection (World in a Six Pointed Star)
  9. August Epicycloidal
  10. Baker Dinomic
  11. Cube (Conformal)
  12. Cube (Equal-area)
  13. Cube (Gnomonic)
  14. Dodecahedron (Conformal)
  15. Dodecahedron (Equal-area)
  16. Dodecahedron (Gnomonic)
  17. Eisenlohr projection
  18. Fuller Dymaxion (Snyder's arrangement)
  19. Gilbert 'Two-World' Orthoapsidal
  20. Gringorten Quincuncial Equal-area
  21. Guyou Conformal
  22. Icosahedron (Conformal)
  23. Icosahedron (Equal-area)
  24. Icosahedron (Gnomonic)
  25. Icosahedron (Oblique Gnomonic - Fisher)
  26. Jervis Cycloidal projection
  27. Lagrange projection, Straight Line Parallel = 0 Deg.
  28. Lagrange projection, Straight Line Parallel = -45 Deg.
  29. Larrivée projection
  30. Lee Tetrahedric projection
  31. Lee World in an Equilateral Triangle
  32. Maurer's No. 235 (Quincuncial Zonal Equal-area) projection
  33. Octahedron (Conformal)
  34. Octahedron (Equal-area)
  35. Octahedron (Gnomonic)
  36. Ortelius (Agnese) Oval
  37. Peirce Quincuncial
  38. Raisz Armadillo
  39. Raisz Half Ellipsoidal
  40. Snyder's Hourglass projection
  41. Schwarz Western Hemisphere in a Hexagon
  42. Schwarz World in a Pentagon
  43. Spilhaus Oceans (Transverse August Epicycloidal)
  44. Tetrahedron (Conformal)
  45. Tetrahedron (Equal-area)
  46. Tetrahedron (Gnomonic)
  47. Trapezoidal projection
  48. Truncated Icosahedron (Equal-area)
  49. Van der Grinten 1
  50. Van der Grinten 2
  51. Van der Grinten 3
  52. Van der Grinten 4
  53. Waldseemüller's 'World Map'

Polyconics

  1. American Polyconic
  2. Canters Minimum-error Polyconic (Non-constrained Optimization)
  3. Canters Minimum-error Polyconic (Straight equator & symmetry about the central meridian)
  4. Canters Minimum-error Polyconic (Twofold symmetry)
  5. Canters Minimum-error Polyconic (Twofold symmetry & Equally spaced parallels)
  6. Canters Minimum-error Polyconic (Twofold symmetry, Equally spaced parallels & Correct ratio of axes)
  7. Canters Minimum-error Pointed Polar Polyconic (Twofold symmetry, Equally spaced parallels & Correct ratio of axes)
  8. Fournier Globular 1
  9. Fournier Globular 1 (in Two Hemispheres)
  10. Ginzburg IV (TsNIIGAiK Modified Polyconic, 1939-1949)
  11. Ginzburg V (TsNIIGAiK Modified Polyconic, 1950)
  12. Ginzburg VI (BSE Modified Polyconic)
  13. Ginzburg IX (TsNIIGAiK Modified Polyconic, 1966)
  14. Laskowski Tri-Optimal
  15. Maurer's No. 159 projection
  16. Maurer's No. 164 projection
  17. Maurer's No. 179 projection
  18. Maurer's No. 180 projection
  19. Maurer's No. 187 projection
  20. Maurer's No. 231 projection
  21. Nicolosi Globular
  22. Rectangular Polyconic
  23. Schmidt Globular
  24. Schmidt Globular (in Two Hemispheres)
  25. Strebe Equal-area, 1995

Pseudoconics

  1. Bonne projection
  2. Double Cordiform 'World Map'
  3. Hill Eucyclic projection
  4. Maurer's No. 73 projection
  5. Schjerning 6 projection
  6. Solov'ev Arbitrary Modified Bonne projection
  7. Stab-Werner projection
  8. Sylvano's 1511 'World' Map

Pseudocylindricals

  1. Adams Orthembadic (Quartic Authalic)
  2. Apian 1 Globular
  3. Apian 1 Globular (in Two Hemispheres)
  4. Apian 2 Globular
  5. Apian 2 Globular (in Two Hemispheres)
  6. Arden-Close Transverse Mollweide
  7. Atlantis projection (John Bartholomew)
  8. Baar projection
  9. Baar Sine Series 2
  10. Baar Sine Series 3
  11. Baar Sine Series 4
  12. Baar Tangent Series 2
  13. Baar Tangent Series 3
  14. Baar Tangent Series 5
  15. Bacon Globular
  16. Bacon Globular (in Two Hemispheres)
  17. Baranyi 1
  18. Baranyi 2
  19. Baranyi 3
  20. Baranyi 4
  21. Baranyi 5
  22. Baranyi 6
  23. Baranyi 7
  24. Boggs Eumorphic
  25. Boggs Eumorphic (Interrupted)
  26. Bomford Modified Gall
  27. Bordone Oval
  28. Bromley-Mollweide projection
  29. Canters Minimum-error Pseudocylindrical (Equally spaced parallels, & Pole Line)
  30. Canters Low-error Pseudocylindrical (a)
  31. Canters Low-error Pseudocylindrical (b)
  32. Canters Low-error Pseudocylindrical (c)
  33. Canters Low-error Pseudocylindrical (d)
  34. Collignon projection
  35. Craster Parabolic
  36. Craster Parabolic (Interrupted - C. H. Deetz)
  37. Deakin Minimum-error Equal-area
  38. Denoyer Semi-elliptical
  39. Eckert 1
  40. Eckert 2
  41. Eckert 3
  42. Eckert 4
  43. Eckert 5
  44. Eckert 6
  45. Erdi-Krausz projection
  46. Fahey projection
  47. Fairgrieve projection
  48. Foucaut Stereographic Equivalent
  49. Fournier 2
  50. Ginzburg 8 (TsNIIGAiK)
  51. Goode Homolosine
  52. Goode Homolosine (Interrupted for Continental Unities)
  53. Goode Homolosine (Interrupted for Oceanic Unities)
  54. Hatano Asymmetrical
  55. Hatano Symmetrical
  56. Holzel projection
  57. Hyperelliptical
  58. Kavrayskiy 5
  59. Kavrayskiy 7
  60. Loximuthal projection
  61. Maurer projection
  62. Mayr projection
  63. McBryde P3 projection
  64. McBryde P3 (Interrupted for Continental Unities)
  65. McBryde P3 (Interrupted for Oceanic Unities)
  66. McBryde Q3 projection
  67. McBryde Q3 (Interrupted for Continental Unities)
  68. McBryde Q3 (Interrupted for Oceanic Unities)
  69. McBryde S2 projection
  70. McBryde S2 (Interrupted for Continental Unities)
  71. McBryde S2 (Interrupted for Oceanic Unities)
  72. McBryde S3 projection
  73. McBryde S3 (Interrupted for Continental Unities)
  74. McBryde S3 (Interrupted for Oceanic Unities)
  75. McBryde & Thomas #1
  76. McBryde & Thomas #2 (Modified M&T #1)
  77. McBryde & Thomas #3 (Flat Polar Sinusoidal)
  78. McBryde & Thomas #4 (Flat Polar Quartic)
  79. McBryde & Thomas #5 (Flat Polar Parabolic)
  80. Mollweide projection
  81. Mollweide (In Two Hemispheres)
  82. Mollweide (In Eight Gores)
  83. Mollweide (Interrupted for Continental Unities - J. Paul Goode)
  84. Mollweide (Interrupted for Continental Unities - National Geographic)
  85. Mollweide (Interrupted for Oceanic Unities - J. Paul Goode)
  86. Mollweide (Interrupted for Continental Unities - Aldine University Atlas)
  87. Mollweide (Interrupted for Continental Unities - Voxland)
  88. Mollweide (Interrupted for Continental Unities - Originator Unknown)
  89. Mollweide (Interrupted for Continental Unities - Jackaranda Atlas)
  90. Mollweide (Interrupted for Oceanic Unities - Times Atlas)
  91. Nell projection
  92. Nell-Hammer projection
  93. Putnins P1 projection
  94. Putnins P2 projection
  95. Putnins P3 projection
  96. Putnins P'3 projection
  97. Putnins P'4 projection
  98. Putnins P5 projection
  99. Putnins P'5 projection
  100. Putnins P6 projection
  101. Putnins P'6 projection
  102. Robinson projection
  103. Semiconformal projection
  104. Siemon IV projection
  105. Sinu-Mollweide projection (Not Interrupted)
  106. Sinusoidal projection
  107. Sinusoidal (Interrupted - Described in McBryde & Thomas, 1949)
  108. Sinusoidal (Interrupted - J. Paul Goode)
  109. Sinusoidal (Interrupted - John Bartholomew)
  110. Sinusoidal (Interrupted - Rand McNally)
  111. Sinusoidal (Interrupted - USGS)
  112. Snyder Minimum Error
  113. Snyder Flat Polar Minimum Error
  114. Times projection
  115. Tissot Modified Sinusoidal
  116. Tobler's Transformed Sinusoidal (Polycylindrical)
  117. Truncated Mollweide projection
  118. Wagner 1 projection
  119. Wagner 2 projection
  120. Wagner 3 projection
  121. Wagner 4 projection
  122. Wagner 5 projection
  123. Wagner 6 projection
  124. Werenskiold 1 projection
  125. Werenskiold 2 projection
  126. Werenskiold 3 projection
  127. Winkel 1 projection
  128. Winkel 2 projection

324 public domain drawings by Paul Bryan Anderson of Norfolk, Virginia. As was stated by Anderson: “arrangement in the manner of Snyder. 324 Graphics, created and released into the Public Domain by Paul B. Anderson [A member of the International Cartographic Association’s Commission on Map Projections].”

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