Projections

Mollweide Projection


Yet another example of a Mollweide projection. Note: Antarctica is incorrect in this example. Data source: APRS World: World map for APRS. This was produced using OGR to read the shapefile, and lib GD to render the PNG file. It was intended as a test case for an astronomy application.

The Mollweide projection is and equal area projection, pseudocylindrical.

The Mollweide Projection was invented by Astronomer Karl Brandon Mollweide of Leipzig (1774 - 1825) in 1805. The projection is commonly used by astronomers for projectiong the celestial sphere. This is the projection used by the WMAP for the Cosmic Background Radiation.

Other names for this projection: Hammer-Aitoff, Aitoff, Homolographic, and Babinet

I'm thinking about adding some information about the mathematics, and simplify it for non math geeks, and programmers. (I recommend using the PROJ4 library)

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