Developer’s corner: adding two global equal area projections to GeoTools/GeoServer
Recently we had the pleasure to implement two new map projections for GeoTools/Geoserver: the Eckert IV projection, and the Mollweide projection.Both projections happen to be equal area projections.These projections are commonly used in atlases to represent the whole world, as they don't alter the relative proportions of countries and continents.This is actually an important feature missing from the common Google/Bing/Yahoo maps. They are all using a close relative of the Mercator projection, which greatly exaggerates the size of all countries at high latitude (for example, Greenland and Antarctica look a lot bigger than they actually are).Compare that with Eckert IV,...
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