Eckert projection

The Eckert projections are six pseudocylindrical map projections devised by Max Eckert-Greifendorff, who presented them in 1906. The latitudes are parallel lines in all six projections. The projections come in pairs; in the odd-numbered projections, the latitudes are equally spaced, while their even-numbered counterparts are equal-area.

The three pairs are distinguished by the shapes of the meridians. Eckert I and Eckert II have rectilinear (straight-line) meridians, meeting at the equator at an angle. In Eckert III and Eckert IV, meridiansare elliptical, while in Eckert V and Eckert VI, they are sinusoidal.

Map projection

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By surface

Cylindrical

Mercator-conformal	Gauss–Krüger Transverse Mercator

Equal-area	Balthasart Behrmann Gall–Peters Hobo–Dyer Lambert Smyth equal-surface Trystan Edwards

Cassini Central Equirectangular Gall stereographic Miller Space-oblique Mercator Web Mercator

General Perspective	Gnomonic Orthographic Stereographic

Equidistant Lambert equal-area

Bonne	Sinusoidal Werner

Bottomley	Sinusoidal Werner

Cylindrical	Balthasart Behrmann Gall–Peters Hobo–Dyer Lambert cylindrical equal-area Smyth equal-surface Trystan Edwards

Tobler hyperelliptical	Collignon Mollweide

Albers Briesemeister Eckert II Eckert IV Eckert VI Hammer Lambert azimuthal equal-area Quadrilateralized spherical cube

Equidistant in
some aspect

Gnomonic

Gnomonic

Loxodromic

Retroazimuthal
(Mecca or Qibla)

Planar	Gnomonic Orthographic Stereographic

Central cylindrical

Polyhedral

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