Mollweide projection

The Mollweide is a technology developed by Carl Brandan Mollweide equal-area map projection showing the entire Earth as an ellipse.

Equator and central meridian are drawn to scale, with increasing distance from this but so does the distortion to very strong. Usually, the zero meridian of the central meridian.

Width circuits are represented as straight lines, meridians as ellipses, the central meridian as a straight line. The meridians, which are offset by ± 90 ° from the central meridian, forming a circle. The central meridian the opposite meridian forms the outer edge of the map.

The similar-looking hammer Aitov projection has lower angular distortions and is thus illustrative, but it is more complex to calculate.