Introduction.- Map projections and their distortionsMap projections and their distortions.- The problem of finding the best projections.- Ideal projection according to the Airy criterion.- The best projection from a set of close-to-equal-area projections.- Airy projection.- Gauss–Kruger projection.- Arithmetic mean principle for the Gauss–Kruger projection.- Ideal and best projections according to Chebyshev’s criterion.- Appendixes.
