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Lambert Conic Conformal Projection
This conic projection was designed by the Alsatian mathematician Johann Heinrich Lambert (1772) and has been used extensively for mapping of regions with predominantly east-west orientation, just like the Albers projection. Unlike the Albers projection, Lambert’s conformal projection is not equal-area. The parallels are arcs of circles with a common origin, and meridians are the equally spaced radii of these circles. As with Albers projection, it is only the two standard parallels that are distortion-free.
llon0/lat0/lat1/lat2/scale or Llon0/lat0/lat1/lat2/width
The projection is set with l or L. The projection center is set by lon0/lat0 and two standard parallels for the map are set with lat1/lat2. The figure size is set with scale or width.
![conic lambert](../../_images/sphx_glr_conic_lambert_001.png)
import pygmt
fig = pygmt.Figure()
fig.coast(
shorelines="1/0.5p",
region=[-130, -70, 24, 52],
projection="L-100/35/33/45/12c",
land="gray",
borders=["1/thick,black", "2/thin,black"],
frame="afg",
)
fig.show()
Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.218 seconds)