Equirectangular Projection
Plate Carrée
The simplest projection — latitude and longitude mapped directly to x and y. The world as a grid. Simple, honest, but stretches everything near the poles.
- Preserves
- Directions along meridians
- Distorts
- Area and shape at high latitudes
- Group
- Cylindrical
- Weirdness
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