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Projection	Robinson	Mercator	Azimuthal
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Purpose	Show the globe on a flat image.	Used for marine navigation because all straight lines on the map are lines of constant azimuth	Equidistant projection is a map that is perfect for identifying antipodes. Because the border indicates the farthest you can get from point of tangency, in this case the South Pole.
Distortion types?	Meridians curve gently in the top and the bottom and poles stretch, Making the points turn into vertical as lines.	First, as I noted earlier, the developed countries are represented with a proportionally larger than they have, and this is done intentionally (or at least has no intention correct) to ningunear poor countries. Second, and this is something that costs me to believe it was originally said by Peters, the Mercator map gives more weight to the northern hemisphere to the south, placing the line of Ecuador not in the middle of the map, but a little below so that the northern hemisphere occupies 2/3 of the surface of the map, and south 1/3.	This projection distorts the relative areas, the size, the distance, the shapes and the angles.
Distortion – Areas that are more distorted?	So the areas more distorted are near of north and south poles.	A few major misconceptions based on this map: - Alaska is nearly as large as the continental U.S. - Greenland is roughly the same size as Africa. - Europe (excluding Russia) is only a bit larger than South America. - Antarctica dwarfs all the continents. In reality:  - Alaska can fit inside the continental U.S. about three times.  - Greenland can fit inside Africa about 14 times. - South America nearly doubles Europe's land mass.  - Antarctica looks like the second-smallest continent.	Well, it depends on the type of azimuthal projection that you decide to use. Because the projection can come from the centre of the Earth, from the middle or from the top, and also from outside it. For example as we said before if we choose a map that it’s centre is the North Pole, the area which will be more distorted is going to be the South Pole.
There is more than one version?	NO	NO	1. Orthographic projection: an inside of this you have also polar projection, equatorial projection and oblique projection. 2. Stereographic projection 3. Gnomonic projection 4. Lambert azimuthal projection 5. Azimuthal equidistant projection
Problems?	Greatly deformed along meridians and farther north than it should appears.	The Mercator projection drastically distorts the size and shape of objects approaching the poles. This may be the reason people have no idea how big some places really are.	There aren’t any map projections that preserve the three parameters, distance, size and shape, it is impossible not to deform the Earth with this type of projection. However, thanks to the mathematics we can make some changes that allow us to maintain any of the parameters.
Socio-cultural implications of using it as a learning resource?	The map is distorted and doesn´t correspond to reality, but its distortion is necessary to adapt the geographic reality to a cartographic projection, and this kind of projection is easy to be explained on pupils and also our space logic can also appreciate the distortion and easily know the reality.	The map is more used to represent the globe especially by teachers and books, then all children imagine the countries as it type of projection shows the countries.	An azimuthal projection is therefore particularly suitable for small 'circular' features on the surface of the earth.