Mollweide Projection

 

The Mollweide projection was first created by Karl Mollweide in 1805 and then familiarized again by Jacques Babinet in 1857. This map was created as an improvement on the Robinson projection. It is much less distorted and is much more proportional in terms of areas of continents. The Equator is doubled the length of the Prime Meridian. Each line of longitude is spaced unequally in order to represent the areas. Every line, aside from the Prime Meridian, is distorted making this a poor directional map. It is more for the vision of the world rather than the amount of use for it. Babinet previously named it a Homolographic map, meaning "equal-area".

 

Pros:

• Gives a more accurate visual

• Improved map, following the Robinson

• Less distortion, more proportional

Cons:

• No line of latitude or longitude represents accurate location

• Poor directional map