Goode homolosine projection
Proyección de Goode
- Date
- 1923 · confidence high
- Place
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Credited to
- John Paul Goode
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
An interrupted, pseudocylindrical, equal-area map projection devised by geographer John Paul Goode by combining the sinusoidal and Mollweide projections to depict the world with minimal distortion of the continents.
What it led to
- widespread use in school atlases and thematic world maps
- adoption for depicting resource and climate distributions
- influence on later interrupted projections