quaff - U.S. National Geodetic Survey

However, it is a projection in the sense that it represents geodetic coordinates on a regular flat grid, such that the difference in angular units (e.g., decimal degrees) is equal in all directions. Because of meridian convergence, this results in a coordinate system that is extremely distorted, especially at high latitudes, and the distortion ... ................
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