John Paul Goode

John Paul Goode ( born November 21, 1862 in Stewartville, Minnesota; † August 5, 1932 in Little Point Sable, Michigan) was an American cartographer.

He had in 1923 to interrupt the first idea, world map in the ocean centers, thus reducing each imaged surfaces and thus to mitigate distortions in the continents of existing Mollweide. The Goode projection is a combination of projection and construction process.

In his projection he tried to connect with the greatest possible fidelity surface shape fidelity even in areas far from the equator Europe and North America. But he revealed the hitherto obligatory unity of the map image. Antarctica, he divided on four cards cloth. The north-south axis, it neglected altogether. In Goode's projection, the Ozeanlächen be mapped cheaper.

Alternative to the Mercator

1908 Goode held a presentation at a meeting of the American Association of Geographers at in Baltimore, USA on alternatives to by him as " Evil Mercator " (hate / Ward, 244) referred to Mercator projection. The Mercator projection is distorted at the poles and in the northern latitudes. Goode proposed to combine two projections and developed his homolographische projection.