Craster’s discarded projections

[mapnerd2022]

And yes, that's exactly his paper.

[Atarimaster]

Does the paper give Craster's reason for rejecting his elliptical projection?

I (perhaps mis-) understood the “but formulas were far more complicated” as being the reason.
After all, if you’ve got two very similar projections, but one of them has serious drawbacks, why keep it?

[mapnerd2022]

Does the paper give Craster's reason for rejecting his elliptical projection?

I (perhaps mis-) understood the “but formulas were far more complicated” as being the reason.
After all, if you’ve got two very similar projections, but one of them has serious drawbacks, why keep it?

My thoughts exactly. Also, at that time there were no computers, so it was more important for projection formulae to be as simple as possible.

[mapnerd2022]

Only now can we generate that Hyperbolic really easily and quickly.

[PeteD]

I (perhaps mis-) understood the “but formulas were far more complicated” as being the reason.

Yes, that's also what I understood, but this passage is referring only to Craster's hyperbolic projection (Putnins P6), and I wanted to know whether Snyder also gave a reason for Craster rejecting his elliptical projection (Putnins P2), which is much less similar to the sinusoidal.