Proyección Cónica Equivalente de Albers: propiedades y aplicación para México

Abstract

The national mapping of Mexico employs three map projections: the Universal Transverse Mercator, for large-scale and medium-scale topographic maps; the Lambert Conformal Conic, for mapping the country in small-scale maps; and the Mercator projection used for nautical charts. The usual employment of these projections has been recognized by the scientific community so they are normally used; however, in Mexico the cartographic research related to this subject has not been produced, and has not sought the application of other map projections in an effort to achieve a better representation of the results of the various spatial research topics. This paper aims to show the use of the Albers Equal-Area Conic projection and its parameters. In this sense, it shows the formulations that allows the projection of the coordinates, the analysis of the distortions and the conception of national mapping in a 1:500,000 scale maps; thus, the article intends to encourage the reflection about the non-conformal characteristic for Mexican mapping.