map
conformal projection
Projection preserving angles, and thus local shape, while distorting areas.
projection conforme
Projection qui conserve les angles, donc la forme locale, mais déforme les aires.
Mercator en est le cas connu. Aucune projection ne conserve à la fois angles et aires.
Classification
- map
Attestation
Sources (10)
17 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 4 books
- Bessadok, Modèle pour l'évaluation et l'amélioration de la lisibilité d'une carte géographique, PhD thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2015↗
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data visualization handbook
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Wikipedia in English↗ fr
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/conformal-projection.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. conformal projection. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/conformal-projection.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-conformal-projection,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {conformal projection},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/conformal-projection.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-06. Images last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.