Further Reading
Online Reading
The entire site was created as a demonstration site for a series of articles which were published at GeoWeb Guru in September 2009:
- Map Projections and Coordinate Systems: Part 1 - an overview of map projections
- Map Projections and Coordinate Systems: Part 2 - an overview of coordinate systems and geoids
- Choosing a Map Projection: Part 1 - argues against the Mercator projection for geostatistical applications
- Choosing a Map Project Part 2: Pseudo-conic, Azimuthal, and Cylindrical Projections - looks at some equal area alternatives
- Choosing a Map Project Part 3: Pseudo-cylindrical Projections - completes the survey of equal area projections
- How to Create an Online Map with a Non-Mercator Projection: Part 1 - a tutorial to using these projections with UMN MapServer
- How to Create an Online Map with a Non-Mercator Projection: Part 2 - completes the tutorial by implementing equal area projections in OpenLayers
Books
The following book gives a very good historical survey of map projections over the last two millenia. It includes some mathematics and geometry for the simpler projections.
The following books cover many of the open source products used when creating this site: