Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area (0 degrees)

Decision Support System for Map Projections of Small Scale Data

Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area (0 degrees)

Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area Projection (0 degrees)

Usage:*

The first Cylindrical Equal-Area Projection was proposed by Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1772. It has seldom been used, except as a textbook example of the most easily constructed equal-area projection, but several modifications have been published. The modifications consist of compressing the projection from east to west and expanding it in the same ratio from north to south, thereby moving the parallel of no distortion from the Equator to other latitudes. Cylindrical Equal-Area Projections are not recommended for world maps, because of extreme shape distortion away from the standard parallels. Other equal-area projections have much less shape distortion away from the parallels of true scale.

* Usage information source:

Snyder, John P., and Philip M. Voxland. Map Projections - A Working Manual. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1453. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1994.

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