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Map makers want to make maps that do three things (amongst others):

* Preserve angles – to determine direction of travel
* Preserve relative areas – to compare land measurements
* Preserve relative distances – to estimate time of travel

Unfortunately no map can simultaneous have all three so maps can only approximate the real geometry of a curved surface.

Map making, therefore, is a compromise so there are many different named projections.

Here are a few.

IMG:Mercator.png |>>

* | |>> IMG:Mercator.png _ Mercator - _ rhumb lines are represented _ by straight segments

| |>> IMG:Strerographic.png

* _ Stereographic - _ shape of circles _ are conserved |

| |>> IMG:Hammerprojection.png
* _ Hammer projection is an _ equal-area map projection

| |>> IMG:Conical.png

* _ Conical Gnomonic projection - gnomonic projection _ displays all great circles as straight lines. |
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