ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SANSON-FLAMSTEED PROJECTION
Devised by the cartographer Sanson in 1650, adapted by Flamsteed in 1729.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SANSON-FLAMSTEED PROJECTION»
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Map Projections: Cartographic Information Systems
Horizontal weighted mean of the generalized Lambert projection and the
generalized Sanson– Flamsteed projection of the biaxial ellipsoid E2A,B,
squared relative eccentricity E2 = 0.1, weight parameters α=1,β=0.5. Fig. F.8.
Horizontal ...
Erik W. Grafarend, Friedrich W. Krumm, 2006
2
Map Projections: A Reference Manual
The Sanson-Flamsteed projection was used in atlases for small-scale general
world maps and for maps of South America and Africa. For many years it was
considered to be one of the best projections for maps of these continents. Now it
is ...
L M Bugayevskiy, John Snyder, 1995
3
Fundamentals of Cartography
... objective is to show land areas of the world, the meridians of interruption
should occur in the water areas. SINUSOIDAL PROJECTION This projection is
also known as Sanson-Flamsteed projection or Mercator-Sanson-Flamsteed
projection.
Rameshwar Prasad Misra, A. Ramesh, 1989
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Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator ...
In discussing the sinusoidal projection,on which converging meridians yield a
world map shaped like an antique Christmas ornament, Deetz and Adams noted
the occasional use of an alternative name, Sanson-Flamsteed projection, ...
5
Map
Projection Transformation: Principles and Applications
2.6.1 Sanson-Flamsteed projection Sanson-Flamsteed projection is a
pseudocylindrical equivalent projection on which meridians are projected as sine
curves and the poles are points. No distortion of length occurs along the central
meridian ...
Qihe Yang, John Snyder, Waldo Tobler, 1999
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Map Projections: A Working Manual
It is also used by many other European surveys, including the Ordnance Surveys
of Scotland and Ireland ; and it is very common in Atlases. Sanson-Flamsteed
projection. [S*] This is the particular case of Bonne's where the equator is chosen
...
7
Mapping and Compilation
It has the advantage over the Sanson's-Flamsteed projection in that the
intersections of the meridians and the parallels away from the central meridian
are not as oblique as in Sanson-Flamsteed. At the same time if suffers in respect
of scale.
Kunwar Krishan Rampal, 1993
8
an introduction to general geography
N. POLE S. POLE F'g- i°- Sanson-Flamsteed's projection of a hemisphere. This
projection is very commonly used for atlas maps of continents. 8. Sanson-
Flamsteed's Projection (Fig. 30). This is Bonne's projection, where the parallels
are ...
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Maps & Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society
Today it is frequently called the Sanson-Flamsteed projection (fig. 6.1 la). C.-F.
Cas- sini invented a projection (fig. 6.1 Ic) that was used for the French
topographic surveys until 1803, when it was replaced by the Bonne (fig. a.
Sanson ...
Norman Joseph William Thrower, 1999
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Map projections--a working manual
... Robinson projection 34 Rob bins' geodesic inverse 199 Rosenmund. M 66. 68.
70 Rowland, J.B 68, 215 Roze, J 154 Rubincam, D.P 242 Ruysch. J I11 Sanson,
N 243 Sanson-Flamsteed projection 243 Satellites, artificial imagery from 2.
