The Perception of Conformality of Some Map Projections

Abstract

r HE visual perception of our environment is so familiar to us that we commonly take it for granted.' However, even an apparently simple phenomenon such as the moon illusion, where the moon appears larger over the horizon than at the zenith, has produced a controversial literature.2 It is not surprising, therefore, that an inquiry into the visual perception of a map projection is beset with difficulties. There must be cartographic and perceptual transferences of information from the globe (earth) to a flat map, with the inevitable distortion in angle, area, direction, and distance, and with the accompanying endless permutations and combinations of meridian-parallel grid systems, land-sea boundaries, coloring, lettering, and thematic data.

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