Robinson

The Robinson projection, presented by the American geographer and cartographer Arthur H. Robinson in 1963, is a modified cylindrical projection that is neither conformal nor equal-area. Central meridian and all parallels are straight lines; other meridians are curved. It uses lookup tables rather than analytic expressions to make the world map “look” right [1]. The scale is true along latitudes 38° north and south. The projection was originally developed for use by Rand McNally and is currently used by the National Geographic Society.

n[lon0/]scale or N[lon0/]width

The projection is set with n or N. The central meridian is set with the optional lon0, and the figure size is set with scale or width.

Footnotes

misc robinson
import pygmt

fig = pygmt.Figure()
# Use region "d" to specify global region (-180/180/-90/90)
fig.coast(region="d", projection="N12c", land="goldenrod", water="snow2", frame="afg")
fig.show()

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