Projection

 On Thursday in Human Geo we talked about projection. I learned that the Scientific method of transferring locations Earths surface to a flat map is called projection. Earths spherical shape causes distortion when drawing it on a flat piece of paper. There are 4 different types of distortion. The first one is the shape of an area can be distorted. The second one is Distance between points may become increased or decreased. The third one is the relative size or different areas can be altered. The fourth and final one is the direction between the points can be distorted. The level of detail and the amount of area covered on the map depends on the map scale.