Map Projections Used In South Africa

Map Projections Used In South Africa

The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection with a conformal property. The area distortions are significant towards the polar regions.

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The equidistant cylindrical projection (also called Plate Carre projection). The map is equidistant (true to scale) along the meridians (in north-south ...

Map Projections Used In South Africa