Geodetic Maps

Map projections in consideration of the ellipsoid shape of the Earth especially used in geodesy and are therefore called geodetic maps.

Do not mistake these projections for the »true geodetic projections« (»gnomonic projection« as a sub-species of the azimuthal projections) which transform the geodesic lines (geodesics) of an area A onto geodesic lines of the image area A*.

Today's geodetic maps are mostly based on the conformal Gauss-Krüger projection which is a transverse cylindrical projection with one meridian that is length-preserving transformed.

  
See also
  
 UTM/UPS-systems UTM/UPS-systems