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Breusing geometric

Description

Developed as the geometric mean between the stereographic and the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projections in order to balance the errors between conformal and equal-area presentations.

Classifications

azimuthal

Graticule

Meridians: Straight lines radiating from centered pole, infinite in extent on a full world map.
Parallels: Circles spaced as a geometric progression.
Poles: Center pole is a point; opposite pole is infinitely distant.

Distortion

Low and balanced toward the center of the map, but increases rapidly beyond a hemisphere.

Similar projections

Stereographic also has rapidly increasing spacing of parallels beyond a hemisphere, and is infinite in extent. Stereographic is conformal.

Origin

By Arthur Breusing, 1880s.

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