Oswald Winkel

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Oswald Winkel (born January 7, 1874 in Leipzig ; † July 18, 1953 there ) was a German cartographer .

Winkel worked for various cartographic publishers. Among other things, he played a major role in the design and processing of the overview and travel maps of the Baedeker travel guides .

He became known for his low-distortion representation of world maps, especially the angle-triplet projection . In 1913 he developed a network design for total images of the earth, which is created by forming the arithmetic mean between Aitov's design (poles shown as points) and the center-spaced cylinder design (poles shown as lines) with two true-to-length parallel circles.

Publications

  • Equal-area, oblique cylindrical projection with a true-length base circle for a map of North, Central and South America, in: Petermanns Mitteilungen, 55 (1909), pp. 329-330.
  • New graticule combinations . In: Petermann's communications. 67, 1921, pp. 248-252.
  • The azimuthal earth map designs by D. Aitoff and E. v. Hammer , in: Geographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 28 (1922), 3, p. 112.
  • General considerations on the mapping of very broad zones , in: Geographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 28 (1922), 3, p. 177.
  • Overview of the combinations of graticules , in: Petermanns Mitteilungen, 74 (1928), pp. 201–204.
  • The Saxon-Thuringian territorial exchanges , in: Petermanns Mitteilungen, 74 (1928), p. 330.
  • The acquisition of suitable map networks , in: Geographische Zeitschrift, Vol. 33 (1927), 10, p. 599.
  • The status of the expansion of the Saxon dams , in: Petermanns Mitteilungen, 80 (1934), pp. 108–110.
  • Brief map design theory , Frankfurt am Main, 1951.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Winkel, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1953
Place of death Leipzig