Assignment 3

USA_Contiguous_Albers_Equal_Area_Conic

Projection: Albers

False_Easting: 0.000000

False_Northing: 0.000000

Central_Meridian: -96.000000

Standard_Parallel_1: 29.500000

Standard_Parallel_2: 45.500000

Latitude_Of_Origin: 37.500000

Linear Unit: Meter

Capital, State	Latitude	Longitude
Santa Fe, NM	-105.9677	35.71
Albany, NY	-73.89	42.737
Phoenix, AZ	-111.884	33.568

Distance between Olympia, Washington and Augusta, Maine with Albers Equal Area Conic projection:

2,548.76² miles; 4,100.98² km

With no projection (GCS_North_American_1983 Datum: D_North_American_1983)

2,530.62² miles; 4,072² km

There was no layer with elevation data.

The most populous U.S. state capital is Phoenix, Arizona with 1,321,045 people and the least populous U.S. state capital in Montpelier, New Hampshire with 8,035 people.

Instead of elevation I looked at total land area of two state capitals, the smallest: Baton Rogue (76.84² miles) and Juneau (2716.65² miles).

USA_Contiguous_Albers_Equal_Area_Conic

Projection: Albers

False_Easting: 0.000000

False_Northing: 0.000000

Central_Meridian: -106.000000

Standard_Parallel_1: 29.500000

Standard_Parallel_2: 45.500000

Latitude_Of_Origin: 37.500000

Linear Unit: Meter

GCS_North_American_1983

Datum: D_North_American_1983

I used a World Equidistant Cylindrical Projection, which preserves land area and can be made with minimal geographic data. This projection is useful as an index map. The central parallel can be any line, but the traditional Plate Carrée projection used the equator. The poles are represented as straight line in this projection and all grid lines are rectangular, and has the same size, shape, and area.

World_Equidistant_Cylindrical

Projection: Equidistant_Cylindrical

False_Easting: 0.000000

False_Northing: 0.000000

Central_Meridian: 0.000000

Standard_Parallel_1: 60.000000

Linear Unit: Meter

GCS_WGS_1984

Datum: D_WGS_1984

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