Introduction In atlas cartography,...

Introduction

In atlas cartography, the world is existinged using different projection types in order to point out thematic information together with physical and/or political features. The Robinson projection, single of the map projections used for this sense was the first to be commissioned by means of a large private corporation. Rand McNally hired Arthur Robinson, a professor in the Geography Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison from 1945 until he retired in 1980 to perform the operations indicated in the projection because of dissatisfaction with the ability of existing projections to create intuitively appearing depictions of the entire world. Rand McNally still makes extensive use