Scale (map) (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Scale (map)" in English language version.

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commons.wikimedia.org (Global: 484^th place; English: 698^th place)

Osborne, Peter (2013), The Mercator Projections, doi:10.5281/zenodo.35392. (Supplements: Maxima files and Latex code and figures) {{citation}}: External link in |postscript= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

Examples of Tissot's indicatrix. Some illustrations of the Tissot Indicatrix applied to a variety of projections other than normal cylindrical.

Snyder, John P. (1987). Map Projections - A Working Manual. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.This paper can be downloaded from USGS pages. Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine It gives full details of most projections, together with introductory sections, but it does not derive any of the projections from first principles. Derivation of all the formulae for the Mercator projections may be found in The Mercator Projections.

Snyder, John P. (1987). Map Projections - A Working Manual. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.This paper can be downloaded from USGS pages. Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine It gives full details of most projections, together with introductory sections, but it does not derive any of the projections from first principles. Derivation of all the formulae for the Mercator projections may be found in The Mercator Projections.

Osborne, Peter (2013), The Mercator Projections, doi:10.5281/zenodo.35392. (Supplements: Maxima files and Latex code and figures) {{citation}}: External link in |postscript= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)