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Catalogue of the Global Map Qualities and their Realisation in the individual Projections

  Fig.

40

28

29

30

34

36

31

17

32

33

42

 

 

 

Mercator

Sanson

Bonne

Lambert

Mollweide

Aitoff

Hammer

van der Grinten

Behrmann

Goode

Peters

 

Year

1569

1650

1752

1772

1805

1889

1892

1904

1910

1923

1974

1

Fidelity of Area

-

+

+

+

-

-

+

-

+

+

+

2

Fidelity of Position

+

-

-

+

-

-

-

-

+

-

+

3

Fidelity of Axis

+

-

-

+

-

-

-

-

+

-

+

4

Totality

-

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

5

Proportionality

+

-

-

-

-

-

-

+

-

-

+

6

Originality

+

-

-

+

-

-

-

-

+

-

+

7

Restorability of map content

+

-

-

+

-

-

-

-

+

-

+

8

Clarity of projection

+

+

+

+

-

-

+

-

+

+

+

9

Obligatory Nature of the Scale

-

+

+

+

-

-

+

-

+

+

+

10

Uniformity of Error Distribution

-

-

-

-

+

+

+

+

-

+

+

11

Suitability of Presentation

- - - - - - - - - + +
12

Clarity of the map

+

-

-

-

 

 

-

-

+

-

-

+

 

Total Map Qualities

7

4

4

8

2

2

5

4

8

6

12

Fig. 66

 

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