Assignment 3

Due Feb 13, 2008

Ruji Rajbhandari

1. Map of The World

The world map is projected in The Mercator Projection and this projection preserves the shape but distorts the area.

On the map Greenland is much bigger than Brazil which is not real on earth.

Its Projection parameters are as follows:

World_Mercator

Projection: Mercator

False_Easting: 0.000000

False_Northing: 0.000000

Central_Meridian: 0.000000

Standard_Parallel_1: 0.000000

Linear Unit: Meter

2. Map of contiguous United States.

Latitude and Longitude of Three Cities:

Name of City	Longitude	Latitude
Santa Fe	105^054’22.288” W	35^041’16.932” N
Augusta	69^042’1.182” W	44^021’13.286” N
St. Paul	93^012’16.294” W	44^055’24.534” N

Distance between Augusta and Olympia

Without projection = 2,530.37 Miles

With Albers projection = 2,547.81 Miles (4,100.31 Km)

Capital cities in 1990

Highest Population – Phoenix (983403)

Lowest population - Montpelier ( 8247 )

Capital city with highest Elevation – Santa Fe ( 6989 Ft.)

3. Map of New Mexico in Albers Projection

Map of New Mexico showing major rivers and roads.