Charts and projections
9 min read
What a chart must do
No flat chart is perfect. Navigation charts are conformal (angles and small shapes are correct), and differ in how they show distance and great circles.
IN THIS LESSON
- Mercator
- Lambert conformal conic
- Polar stereographic
- Scale
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