type of maps

1.1 hgap

mercator project

-focuses on longitude & latitude

-accurate direction (useful for navigation)

-disorition in size

-disorition in landmasses

EX: africa appears smaller than greenland

good homolosine projection

-interrupted map

-accurate size & shape

-distortion with distance and edges of map

-(not helpful for direction)

interrupted map

tries to remove distortion by removing parts of the globe

uninterrupted map

a map that displays the entirety of the earth’s surface

Fuller projection

-interrupted map

-accurate size & shape

-no cardinal directions (N,E,S,W)

-distortion as you get farther from center of map

robinson projection

-uninterrupted map

-accurate size & shape

-distortion at the pole

-(usually used as world maps)

Winkel Tripel projection

-uninterrupted map

-round in shape & large

-distortion mainly at the pole

Gall-Peters projection

-uninterrupted map

-true size of landmasses

-distortion in shape

-distortion in direction