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What types of map projections does TransLT support?

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Nr. Projection Name Works on ellipsoid Works on spheroid Reversible
Cylindrical Projections

1

Cassini-Soldner

2

Central Cylindrical


3

Cylindrical Equal Area (Normal)

4

Cylindrical Equal Area (Oblique)

5

Cylindrical Equal Area (Transverse)

6

Equidistant Cylindrical

7

Gall Stereographic Cylindrical


8

Hotine Oblique Mercator (Variant A)

9

Hotine Oblique Mercator (Variant B)



10

Hyperbolic Cassini-Soldner


11

Laborde for Madagascar

12

Mercator (1SP) (Variant A)

13

Mercator (2SP) (Variant B)

14

Mercator (2SP) (Variant C)

15

Miller Cylindrical


16

Oblique Mercator

17

Popular Visualisation Pseudo Mercator

18

Swiss. Obl. Mercator

18

Transverse Mercator

19

Transverse Mercator (South Orientated)

20

Transverse Mercator Zoned Grid System

21

Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

Pseudocylindrical Projections

22

Collignon


23

Eckert I


24

Eckert II


25

Eckert III


26

Eckert IV


27

Eckert V


28

Eckert VI


29

Fahey (Modified Gall)


30

Foucaut Sinusoidal


31

Foucaut Stereographic Equivalent


32

Hatano Asymmetrical Equal Area


33

Kavraiskiy V


34

Kavraiskiy VII


35

Loximuthal


36

McBride-Thomas Flat-Polar Parabolic (No. 5)


37

McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Quartic (No. 4)


38

McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Sine (No. 1)


39

McBryde-Thomas Flat-Polar Sinusoidal (No. 3)


40

McBryde-Thomas Flat-Pole Sine (No. 2)


41

Mollweide


42

Nell


43

Nell-Hammer


44

Pseudo Plate Carrée

45

Putnins P1


46

Putnins P2


47

Putnins P3


48

Putnins P3p


49

Putnins P4 (Craster Parabolic)


50

Putnins P4p


51

Putnins P5


52

Putnins P5p


53

Putnins P6


54

Putnins P6p


55

Quartic Authalic


56

Sinusoidal (Sanson-Flamsteed)

57

Wagner I (Kavraiskiy VI)


58

Wagner II


59

Wagner III


60

Wagner IV


61

Wagner V


62

Wagner VI


63

Werenskiold I


64

Winkel I


65

Winkel II



Conic Projections

66

Albers Equal Area

67

Bipolar conic of western hemisphere


68

Equidistant Conic

69

Euler (Equidistant Conic)


70

Krovak Oblique Conformal Conic

71

Krovak Oblique Conformal Conic (North Orientated)

72

Krovak Oblique Conformal Conic Modified

73

Krovak Oblique Conformal Conic Modified (North Orientated)

74

Lambert Conformal Conic (1SP)

75

Lambert Conformal Conic (1SP) West Orientated

76

Lambert Conformal Conic (2SP)

77

Lambert Conformal Conic (2SP) Belgium

78

Lambert Conic Near-Conformal


79

Murdoch I (Equidistant Conic)


80

Murdoch II


81

Murdoch III (Equidistant Conic, minimum error)


82

Perspective Conic


83

Tissot


84

Vitkovskiy I (Equidistant Conic)


Pseudoconic Projections

85

Bonne (South Orientated)

86

Bonne (Werner for lat.1sp = 90°)

Polyconic Projections

87

American Polyconic

88

International Map of the World (Modified Polyconic)

Azimuthal Projections

89

Azimuthal Equidistant

90

Gnomonic


91

Guam (Azimuthal Equidistant)


92

Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area

93

Lee Oblated Stereographic


94

Miller Oblated Stereographic


95

Mod. Stererographics of 48 U.S.


96

Mod. Stererographics of 50 U.S.

97

Mod. Stererographics of Alaska

98

Modified Azimuthal Equidistant (for Micronesia)


99

Oblique Stereographic

100

Orthographic

101

Polar Stereographic Variant A (Universal)

102

Polar Stereographic Variant B

103

Polar Stereographic Variant C

104

Stereographic (J.P. Snyder formulas)

105

Topocentric local

106

Vertical Perspective


107

Vertical Perspective (Orthographic case)


Miscellaneous Projections

108

New Zealand Map Grid


109

Van der Grinten


 

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