Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.17559/TV-20140707123107

Optimal map conic projection - a case study for the geographic territory of Serbia

Mirko Borisov orcid.org/0000-0002-7234-6372 ; Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositej Obradović 6, 21000 Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia
Vladimir M. Petrović orcid.org/0000-0003-0745-4008 ; University of Belgrade, Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, Department for Ecology and Technoeconomics, Njegoševa 12, 11000 Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Milivoj Vulić orcid.org/0000-0003-1487-5855 ; Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering Chair for Mine Surveying and Applied Geophysics, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 12, 1000 Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia

Abstract

The article deals with finding the optimal map conic projection which, according to the criteria of the minimum of distortions, would be more appropriate than the available and, up to the present point in time, generally used conic map projections. Apart from the best map projection, the paper also describes other conic projections still used in the official cartography of Serbia. In the paper, the size of the deformations is analysed and shown in case of the Modified polyconic projection and the Lambert conic projection on the example of a geographical map at scale 1:1000 000. Namely, the size of the linear deformations is analysed and shown in all cases. One of them, the fifth example of the Lambert conformal conic projection, is the most favourable in terms of size and distribution of the deformations upon the entire surface of mapping. Examples of real conformal conic projections are made with numerical procedures in the program package MATLAB.

Keywords

geodesy; map conic projection; mathematical cartography; minimum deformation; optimisation

Hrčak ID:

138100

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/138100

Publication date:

22.4.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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