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Map projection is the ways of depicting the
spherical surface of the Earth on a flat
piece of paper. Traditional projections
include the conic, azimuthal, and
cylindrical. The most famous cylindrical
projection is the Mercator projection, which
dates from 1569. The weakness of these
systems is that countries in different
latitudes are disproportionately large, and
lines of longitude and latitude appear
distorted.
Subject by: George Sweeney