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Equirectangular Projection

\begin{figure}\begin{center}\BoxedEPSF{maps/rect.epsf scaled 600}\end{center}\end{figure}

A Map Projection, also called a Rectangular Projection, in which the horizontal coordinate is the longitude and the vertical coordinate is the latitude.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-25