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Mapping the sphere to a cone: polar aspect. Equidistant, conformal, and equal area mappings. Ptolemy, de L’Isle, Lambert, and Albers projections. Point-like North Pole. Tangent cones, secant cones, and circles-of-contact.
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Grafarend, E.W., You, RJ., Syffus, R. (2014). “Sphere to Cone”: Polar Aspect. In: Map Projections. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36494-5_17
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