Cylindrical Projections
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Conceptualized as the result of wrapping a
cylinder of paper around the Earth
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Example: Mercator Sinusoidal
Pictures taken from:
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/crs/geog165/images/cyl_mercator.gif
and
http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/aencmed/targets/illus/ilt/T172132A.gif