Miller cylindrical projection

A Miller projection of the Earth.

The Miller cylindrical projection is a modified Mercator projection, proposed by Osborn Maitland Miller (1897–1979) in 1942. The latitude is scaled by a factor of 4/5, projected according to Mercator, and then the result is multiplied by 5/4 to retain scale along the equator.^[1] Hence:

$x = \lambda\,$

$y = \frac 5 4 \ln\left[\tan\left(\frac 1 4 \pi + \frac 2 5 \varphi\right)\right]$

where λ is the longitude from the central meridian of the projection, and $\varphi\,$ is the latitude. Meridians are thus about 0.733 the length of the equator.

In GIS applications, this projection is known as: "EPSG:54003 - World Miller Cylindrical"

References

1. ^ Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections, John P. Snyder, 1993, pp. 179, 183, ISBN 0-226-76747-7.

External links

• Table of examples and properties of all common projections, from radicalcartography.net
• An interactive Java Applet to study the metric deformations of the Miller Projection.
• Math formulae information
• Spatial information
• Historical information

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