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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