Composite
satellite image of the whole
world in a
plate carrée projection, a very simple
map projection that has been in use since the earliest days of spherical
cartography. The name is from the French for "flat and square". It is a special case of the equidistant cylindrical projection in which the horizontal coordinate is the
longitude and the vertical coordinate is the
latitude.
Composite
satellite image of the whole
world in a
plate carrée projection, a very simple
map projection that has been in use since the earliest days of spherical
cartography. The name is from the French for "flat and square". It is a special case of the equidistant cylindrical projection in which the horizontal coordinate is the
longitude and the vertical coordinate is the
latitude.