Three Basic Categories of map projections are:
• Planar Projection• Cylindrical Projection• Conic Projection
Planar surface Earth intersectsthe plane on a smallcircle. All points on circle have no scale distortion.
Cylindrical surfaceEarth intersects thecylinder on two smallcircles. All points alongboth circles have no scale distortion.
Conic surface Earth intersects thecone at two circles.all points along bothcircles have no scaledistortion.
Winkel Tripel Projection • Presented by Oswald
Winkel in 1921
• Most general reference maps are the Winkel Tripel Projection.
• The map provides goood balance between the size and shape of land areas. Even the polar areas are depicted with little distortion of size and shape.