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Map projection selection for mapping regions

The paper is an introduction to basic criteria of map projection selection and gives some general recommendation about the projection selection in order to avoid harsh mistakes. Wrong choices of map projection for lots od small-scale maps are very frequent in textbooks and journals. Numerous publishing houses in Croatia and obroad still produce general-geographic and political world maps in Mercator and Van der Grinten projections. Both projections are completly inappropriate for such maps because of too much area distortion. Even more irritating is the increasing number of distorted representations of Croatia. Such representations are very often not a consequence of a wrong map projection choice, but of intentional and conscious distortion of cartographic representations in order to "optimally" use the space on the page of a book, a journal or newspaper. The authors would like to point at the inadmissability of such procedures, which are results of insufficient cartographic knowledge, especially map projection knowledge, its selection for maps of certain regions and values of unavoidable distortion.

cartography ; mapping ; map projection selection

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