John Paul Goode

John Paul Goode (born November 21, 1862 in Stewartville , Minnesota , † August 5, 1932 in Little Point Sable , Michigan ) was an American cartographer .

In 1923 he was the first to come up with the idea of ​​interrupting world maps in the middle of the ocean in order to reduce the areas to be depicted and thus to alleviate distortions in the continents of the already existing Mollweide projection . The Goode projection is a combination of projection and construction methods.

In his projection he tried to combine area fidelity with the greatest possible fidelity to form, even in regions of Europe and North America far from the equator. In return he gave up the previously obligatory closeness of the map image. He divided the Antarctic into four map pockets. He completely neglects the north-south axis. In Goode's projection, the ocean surfaces are mapped more cheaply.

Alternative to Mercator

In 1908, Goode gave a lecture at a meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Baltimore, USA, on alternatives to what he called “Evil Mercator” (Hass / Ward, 244) called Mercator projection. The Mercator projection is skewed at the poles and in the northern latitudes. Goode suggested combining two projections and developed his homolographic projection from this.

literature

• Charles C. Colby: John Paul Goode. In: Journal of Geography, 1932 (31), 8, 347-348.
• William H. Haas, Harold B. Ward: J. Paul Goode . In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 1933 (23), 4, 241-246.