Chapter 7 - Map Projections and Map Scale

Why Do We Need Map Projections?

National Geographic has a several good pages explaining the basics of map projections.

For more technical detail on projections, check out the Map Projection Home Page.

 Using Other Projection Tools

Blue Marble Geographics makes an ArcView extension called Shape Projector AVX, that reprojects shapefiles. Download a demo copy, or purchase the real thing. They also produce an extension that will reproject raster data as well.

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