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Table of projections

Year	Projection	Image	Type	Properties	Creator	Notes
1569	Mercator = Wright		Cylindrical	Conformal	Gerardus Mercator	Lines of constant bearing (rhumb lines) are straight, aiding navigation. Areas inflate with latitude, becoming so extreme that the map cannot show the poles.
1822	Gauss–Krüger = Gauss conformal = (ellipsoidal) transverse Mercator		Cylindrical	Conformal	Carl Friedrich Gauss Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger	This transverse, ellipsoidal form of the Mercator is finite, unlike the equatorial Mercator. Forms the basis of the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system.
1903	Hotine oblique Mercator		Cylindrical	Conformal	M. Rosenmund, J. Laborde, Martin Hotine
1772	Lambert conformal conic		Conic	Conformal	Johann Heinrich Lambert	Used in aviation charts.
1879	Peirce quincuncial		Other	Conformal	Charles Sanders Peirce	Tessellates. Can be tiled continuously on a plane, with edge-crossings matching except for four singular points per tile.
1887	Guyou hemisphere-in-a-square projection		Other	Conformal	Émile Guyou	Tessellates.
1925	Adams hemisphere-in-a-square projection		Other	Conformal	Oscar Sherman Adams
1965	Lee conformal world on a tetrahedron		Polyhedral	Conformal	L. P. Lee	Projects the globe onto a regular tetrahedron. Tessellates.
1833	Littrow		Retroazimuthal	Conformal	Joseph Johann Littrow	on equatorial aspect it shows a hemisphere except for poles.
1982	GS50		Other	Conformal	John P. Snyder	Designed specifically to minimize distortion when used to display all 50 U.S. states.

*The first known popularizer/user and not necessarily the creator.