Gnomonic Projection
Central / Great Circle
Projects from the centre of the Earth outward. The magic: every straight line on this map is a great circle — the shortest path between two points. Navigators love it. It can only show less than a hemisphere and the edges get extreme.
- Preserves
- Great circles as straight lines
- Distorts
- Everything, increasingly toward edges
- Group
- Azimuthal
- Weirdness
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