Werner projection

The rod - Wernersche projection (also called rod -Werner or Werner projection) is a spurious cone illustration of the earth. Like some other projections, it is classified as a heart-shaped ( kordiform ). Rod -Werner refers to the two founders Johannes Werner (1466-1528), a parish priest from Nuremberg, the projection of this refined and they drove forward, and John Stabius from Vienna, who developed it in 1500.

The projection is a limiting form of the Bonn ash projection. The standard parallel is located at one of the poles (90 ° N / S). Distances along each Parallels and along the central meridian, as well as all distances from the North Pole, isometrically.