Werner projection
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showing the Werner projectionThe Werner projection is a
heart-shaped projections,[specify] it is also categorized as cordiform. Stab-Werner refers to two originators: Johannes Werner (1466–1528), a parish priest in Nuremberg, refined and promoted this projection that had been developed earlier by Johannes Stabius (Stab) of Vienna
around 1500.
The projection is a limiting form of the Bonne projection, having its standard parallel at one of the poles (90°N/S).[1][2] Distances along each parallel and along the central meridian are correct, as are all distances from the north pole.
See also
References
- ISBN 0-226-76747-7.
- ^ ———————— (1987), "Map Projections—A Working Manual", Professional Paper, United States Geological Survey, pp. 138–0.
External links
Media related to Maps with Stab-Werner projection at Wikimedia Commons- Table of examples and properties of all common projections, Radical Cartography.
