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Charts and projections

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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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