Question

Answer the following questions in not more than 125 words:
Discuss the main properties of conical projection with one standard
parallel and describe its major limitations.

Answer 1

Conical projection

Explanation:

• A map that projects the area of the earth onto a cone whose vertex is usually on the poles.

• The conical projections are used to apply on 2 portions of hemisphere.

• The simple conic projection along a single latitude line is called standard parallels.

• Longitudinal lines are projected on conical surface  that are meet at apex and the latitudinal lines are projected on the cone as a ring.

• Example of some conic projection are albers equal area conic, equidistant conic,Lambert conformal conic,Polyconic etc.

• The major advantage of Conic map projection is to retain conformality.